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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:
  • "claims director" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447045737303 (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.
  • grooverwht@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Christobel Angerson <christobelanderson7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <grooverwht@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:44:43 +0200
Subject: Your Email!!!



BRITISH ONLINE LOTTERY PROMOTION

16, Green Avenue, P O Box 74 Southwark, London, SE1 0EH

UNITED KINGDOM


Ref No: BOL-C/ 18-F0672312 Batch No:801/00515/HOP Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-006 Grand Draw No: 15021
WINNING NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you that your email address was selected among the four lucky winners of the promotional British Online Lottery Promotion Sweepstakes held recently as part of our EXPERIMENTAL BONANZA. Winners were selected through a computer ballot system drawn randomly from a pool of over 100,000 names of e-mail addresses from World Wide Web in all over Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £250,000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file BOL/9023110508/02. This is from a total cash prize of £1, 000, 000, 00 shared amongst the four (4) lucky winners in this category. We in the British E-Lottery Free Sweepstakes is by this program, launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever-growing number of participants in our various lottery programs.
This is part of our International Promotions Program, which was conducted in view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry Worldwide and zoning all lucky winners by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim 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 claims, please contact our claims director (Groover White) who is to guide and facilitate the release of your funds. Ensure you provide him with the requested information below:

* FULL NAMES:* CONTACT ADDRESS:* TELEPHONE NUMBER/FAX NUMBER:
* AGE:* OCCUPATION:
* NATIONALITY:
* BATCH NUMBER: * REFERENCE NUMBER:

Claims Director,
Groover WhiteEmail: grooverwht@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44 70457 37303
Good luck from me and members of staff British Online Lottery Promotion.
Yours faithfully,Christobel Aderson
Online Coordinator
British Online Lottery Promotion
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