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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (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.
  • +447045707811 (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.
  • neville4paul@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: British National Lottery<neville4paul@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:21:27 +0400
Subject: Confirmation Letter From The Lottery Office

BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of the
UK National Lottery Online Promo Programme held on the 1ST of November, 2007.
We have been sending this notice to you but this is the last as we are about distributing winnings to winners. The draw
was done electronically with several email addresses provided
to this office by microsoft to enhance the utilization of the internet.
Your email address was attached to Reference Number UK/9420X2/68 and was picked as one of the ten winning email
addresses.
This has qualified you to claim the total cash prize Of £753,437 in
cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £7,534,370.00 shared amongst the first
ten (10) lucky winners in this category B.

Your winnings will be issued to you as soon as our claims department
verify your winning after you might have filled the
payment processing form below.

Payment Processing Form for filing of claims.
1.Name in full.
2.Address in full.
3.Age.
4.Phone No.
5.Occupation
6.Winning Email Address

Assigned Claims Agent: Mr. Neville Paul
Email: neville4paul@hotmail.com
Phone: +44 704 570 7811.
Quote Your Reference Number as UK/9420X2/68 when
you are filing your claims. Congratulations once more from all our members of
Staff.

Yours Sincerely
Sir Steven Smith
(Online Promo Co-ordinator)

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