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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 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.
  • +447031871731 (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.
  • claimcenter8@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • claimcenter8@inmail24.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Mrs. Sandra Briggs All-Gold/Britishc" <allgoldcorpuk5@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:03:25 +0200
Subject: All-Gold corp 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


*All-Gold in collaboration with the British Lottery board 2007 Notification
*
**
*WINNING NOTIFICATION.
* *All-Gold Lottery Award Promotion Programme* * * *All-Gold/British Lottery
Award Promotion Programme
Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton
Nottingham shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom
Lottery Co-ordinator,
Dr.Mrs. Sandra Briggs
Chairperson Lottery Organized Committee
Dr. Mrs. Jenniffer Gray.
Nottingham shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom. * *Attn:Sir/Madam,*
**
*All-Gold in collaboration with the British Lottery board! announce you as
one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Micro-soft Lottery Draw for the
year, 2007. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a
batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia ,
United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually,consequently,
you have been approved for a total pay out of £930,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND
THIRTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS ONLY ).*
**
*This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational Micro-Soft companies and arts councils of England as part of
their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities and the whole
world where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail
address) falls within our European representative office, as indicated in
your play coupon and your prize of £930,000.00 will be released to you from
this regional branch office in United Kingdom or otherwise specified*
**
* *your identification numbers are,
*Customer Service: 680 NCA 85914
Ref: EAAL/851OYHI/04
Batch No Lotto 6/49
Draw Coupon : Match 6+B
Ref No: 474061725/04,
Batch: 7056490902/188,
Winning No: GB8701/LPRC*

FOR YOUR CLAIMS
*please contact our certified and accredited corresponding agent in United
Kingdom immediately for category "A" winners for quick and urgent release of
your fund,*

contact information is as follow:
*Mr.Gary Neville
30 Prospect Hill, Galway United Kingdom.*
* Tel: +44 703 187 1731


* *Email:* claimcenter8@yahoo.co.uk
*Email: * claimcenter8@Inmail24.com

*You are required to provide the claims agent with the under listed
information as soon as possible:
A. Name In Full:................................
B. Residential Address:.....................................
C. Email Address:..........................
D. Nationality:.................................
E. Age:.........................................
F. Sex:..........................................
G. Occupation:..................................
H. Marital Status:..............................
I. Phone:.......................................
J. Fax:........................................
Wining References:
Total Amount
Won:.....................................................
Ref No: ........................................
Batch No: ............................................
Winning No:........................................*
*IMPORTANT NOTICE:*
*
(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process,
failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings
Forfeiture.Winnersare therefore advised to expedite their claims
process.
*
*(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of
claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards
winning.*
**
*(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details as
confidential as possible,any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this
Confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered solely by such
winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy taken on employment.*
**
*
Congratulations Once again
We thank you for being part of our Promotions programme. Furthermore, should
there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.*
**
*The British International Lottery board winning draw is conducted in each
quarter of the year .*
**
* This email is confidential. It may also be privileged or otherwise
protected by other legal rules. If you are not the intended recipient please
notify the sender immediately on the telephone number given below and delete
the message from all locations on your computer. You should not copy this
email or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other
person: to do so may be unlawful.

Copyright (c) 2005-2010 the National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline
100860 8556 2548 9576UK

**Yours Sincerely
Dr.Mrs. Sandra Briggs*

*British National Lottery Co-Ordinator.

British Lottery is a free service that does not require you to register or
be a Microsoft ! Registered user before winning*


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If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by E-Mail
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use it or disclose its contents to any other person. If any part of this
message is illegible or if you suspect that the message may have been
intercepted or amended, please contact the sender. We cannot accept any
responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message without
further investigation.

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