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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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 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.
  • markcroftagent@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD LONDON <ukllward15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <markcroftagent@aol.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:02:29 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: YOU HAVE WON OUR END THE OF YEAR BONANZA















The National Lottery, PO Box 1010, Liverpool, L70 1NL.







REFNº:EGS/2251256003/02 Date: 15/12/2007
BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD
winning: 60/84/27/17/36
FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION:

U.K National Lottorey wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on Saturday 15th December 2007. Your email account have been picked as a winner of ONE MILLION FIVE HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH PUNDS STERLING(£I,550,000.00)End of the year bonanza. This result is now released to you on this day 21/12/2007.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from WorldWide Websites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place bianually i.e twice in a year.
All lucky winning must be claimed not later than 30TH of January, 2008. After this date all unclaimed funds will be forfeited and returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed winning prizes. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.
Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,For the release of your winning,kindly contact the funds department in National Lottery Head Quarters.
You are to contact the funds department under the office of your accredited claims agent: Mr. Mark Croft via email: {markcroftagent@aol.co.uk}, and you are to quote your Ref: number and your email address for confirmation of your winnings.

Congratulations from the staffs and thank you for being part of the email account users program. Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International funds Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).MRS JULIE VAN HANS (VICE PRESIDENT)


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