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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:
  • "royal national lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • +447045712276 (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.
  • mr_scotthales@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: rachel conrade <rrafaith@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:24:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: e-mail came today......

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This is one of those fraud lottery scams...........below I have pasted the text and this is the e-mail address it was sent from:&nbsp; nobbs.inc@eznet.co.nz.

I am reporting this because I am sick of all the e-mails I receive.

Rachel





FROM:PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LOTTERY,WINNING NOTICE FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER -Ref.No.-RNL/051/652659966/UK.

Attention:

The Royal National Lottery has just concluded its final draws of it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s periodical promotional program.

An
exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and
corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer search from
the internet.

No tickets were sold.

Your email address
emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes category as email
addresses were soughted,from a total number of 25,000 addresses drawn
from all over the globe.

After an automated computer ballot of
our Royal National Lottery program,only SEVEN winners emerged in this
category and therefore each are to receive payouts of EU1,500,000.00
(ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) from the total of
EU10,500, 000.00 (TEN MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND EURO).

However,every email address selected was
accompanied by a reference and ticket number,after the cyber lotto
selection,the below ticket and reference numbers emereged as one of the
lucky winners in the above category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- RNL/051/652659966/UK,
Ticket No.- RNL87866UK.

For
confirmation of the claim of your prize money, you are to send an email
to our customer service representative with informations below for
further instructions on how you can claim your prize:

Mr Scott Hales
Customer Service Representative
Royal National Lottery UK,
email:mr_scotthales@hotmail.com
contact: +447045712276

You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process of collecting your prize.

We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the
nearest future.

Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Sincerely,
Promotions Department
Royal National Lottery









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