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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:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • +447045775574 (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.
  • gyan.lotto@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ROSE ADAMS" <roseadams133@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:51:29 +0100
Subject: FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE


FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARDS DEPARTMENT UK INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY CORPORATION.

Date: 2/08/2008
Ref: 575061/03
Batch: 8056490902/188

Winning Numbers
(1) (2) (26) (30) (40) (21)
AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE
Attn: Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of Uk
International Lottery Programmes held on the 1st of July 2008 from
the Uk International Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an
electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.Your name
was attached to ticket number; 675061725 9356460902 Serial Number
67749137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 2-9-23-35-46
bonus number 14, which consequently won the lottery in the second
category. You are here by have been approved a lump sum pay of
£200,000.00GBP (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUND STERLING) in cash credit
file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 from the total cash prize shared amongst
Eight lucky winners in this category.

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has been processed
and your money remitted to your nominated bank. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this
programme by some participants. All participants where selected through
a computer/mail balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand
E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions
program which is conducted annually.This Lottery was promoted and
sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies and also
the Uk Government as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further
more your details (e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in Amsterdam, Holland, as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of £200,000.00 will be released to you from our
office in London. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate
in our end of year high stakes for £2.3 Million international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our claims agent,
MR.Frank Gyan
at; gyan.lotto@gmail.com
TEL: +447045775574

To file for your claim . Please quote your Date of draw,Reference
Number, Batch Number and Winning Number, which can be found on the
top-left corner of this message. Also, you should give in your
telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons,
we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the
public until your claim is processed and your prize has been released
to you and also to the public. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the 30th of Agust 2008;
otherwise all funds will be forfeited. Congratulations once again on
your winning!

BEST REGARDS
Rose Adams(Mrs)
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT :
gyan.lotto@gmail.com

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION

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