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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "suite 23-30,lion towers" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims office" (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.
  • +447031972411 (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.
  • christopherthomasclaimconsultant@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uk winners <uklott1035@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <christopherthomasclaimconsultant@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:15:45 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS



THE UK LOTTO COMPANY UK HEAD OFFICE SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS CENTRAL LONDON ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.




Dear Lucky Winner, We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the UK LOTTRY draw held on the 20th of SEPTEMBER 2007. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual UK Lotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 pounds (one million pounds) only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order: (i) winning numbers: 11-13-26-34-44-48 (ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76 (iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK (iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK numbers and bonus ball number numbers and bonus ball number
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of GBP1,000,000 Pounds (OneMillion Pounds Only) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings,Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings: Mr.Chris Thomas International Claim Consultant The UKlotto Company Tel: +44 703 197 2411 Tel/: +44 703 197 2412 Fax: +44 -870 479 3698
Email:christopherthomasclaimconsultant@yahoo.co.uk

N.B:Steps to claiming your prize; 1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer. 2.Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they want their prize paid or sent. 3.Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number,occupation and means of identification (international passport or drivers licence)to claim officer, via email or fax, to process the immediate payment of your prize. Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Sincerely, John Smith Manager,Awards Promotions Manager The UK Lotto company UNITED KINGDOM

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Yours in service,

Mrs. Grace Bruce
Executive Co-ordinator(U.K Lottery Inc).




Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).

------------------------------------------------- The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.The freelotto internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
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