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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million pounds" (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.
  • +447031840803 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +442071174949
• 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.
  • customercare.brtlotuk@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: Execs Limited London <customercare.execslimited54@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <frankbrigs@execs.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:30:03 +0000
Subject: Good-day(You are a Winner)



British National Lottery, 28 Tan Field Road,Croydon,London. Dear Winner, This email is being sent from The British National Lottery. You've been selected a beneficiary to the tune of 2,764,866.00 Pounds Sterling.You've been approved to claim this money. You dont need a ticket to win. Most winners never buy tickets. British National Lottery benefits eduation, institutions, jobless poor and homeless individuals, rich people etc. How is this possible? The British National Lottery returns approximately 0.56 Pounds of every Pound gotten from buyers of lottery tickets to support worldwide, National and State-sponsored programs. FY’06 sales translated into 844.2 million Pounds in funding for: community colleges, Department of Human Services, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, the Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf and many individual beneficiaries. Therefore each time you or anyone purchases a lottery ticket, another person, institution and charity organisations stand to gain a lot. How do we select winners? Individual winners are selected through random email selection on monthly basis. This is how you were selected this month to claim 2,764,866.00 Pounds Sterling. Community colleges, Department of Human Services, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture etc are selected by random sampling. How do you claim your prize? Get in touch with this month's give-away co-ordinator with details that appear below and he will guide you adequately on how to get your prize. Please send him your full name, address, telephone number, present occupation, age and sex to the email: customercare.brtlotuk@hotmail.com . Name: Dr Clement Anthony Email: customercare.brtlotuk@hotmail.com Office Phone:+447031840803,
Mobile Phone:+447011134199
Fax: +442071174949 Once more we say congratulations. Copyright © British Lottery Inc, 2007.
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