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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447035900183 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • processingunit44@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AWARD NOTIFICATION <notifi11@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:13:58 -0400
Subject: CONGRATULATION (Lottery Draw Results 2007,You Are A Winner)



SAMSUNG LOTTERY
HEAD SAMSUNG BASE PAYMENT UNIT.
P. O. Box 20070 Bolton.
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/98938****2/68/SEPT Draw.
Batch: 087/83/9709LHSD

Exteemed Winner,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you that you are a winner of the Draw 9072 of the SAMSUNG LOTTERY, Online Sweepstakes International program held on 30th August 2007.
Your e-mail address attached herein is
Ticket number: 23446005987868
Serial number: 8738/02
Drew the lucky numbers: 13 - 46 - 11 - 04 - 31 - 16
Bonus Number: 10 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £600,000.oo (Six Hundred Thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTLU/78317818308/982. This is from a total cash prize of £6,000,000.00 shared amongst the (10) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 200,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in England as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £600,000.00(Six hundred thousand, pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our affiliated security/courier companies in England. Our Fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our correspondent Head Samsung Base Payment unit in UK through processingunit44@yahoo.co.uk for your payment information with your full personl data and draw numbers which signifies that you a real winner (i.e. 981):

1. NAME.............. 2. ADRESS................ 3. AGE................... 4. OCCUPATION.............. 5. TELEPHONE NUMBER......... 6. NATIONALITY................ 7. LUCKY WINNING NUMBERS.......


Redeeming Officer
Contact: Keary Moris
Email: processingunit44@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +447035900183
+447024035340

Good luck from members of staff of the SAMSUNG LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Perry Thorn.
Online coordinator for
SAMSUNG LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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Our last payment to numerous winners world wide through our correspondent payment centers.
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