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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• 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.
  • +447045761885 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: mark vendatine <prom-manager223@live.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:30:01 +0000
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?HOW_YOU_EMERGED_AS_A_WINNER=FE=FE=FE?=




The National Lottery,35 Tottenham CourtRoad London.WD1 12T. United Kingdom
Tel:+44 704 5761 885

Dear Winner ,
Congratulations once again from all the staff here. Be informed that all participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw. Your email address happen to be one of the emails chosen from our new java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web. Participants were selected from the registered email addresses in the Public Key Server -- Index, it was drawn from a pool of over 120,000 names in this batch ,participants were taken from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted six times annually to encourage the use of Internet world wide. In order to verify your winnings, we need your particulars for record purposes. Attached here is a copy of our verifications form, please fill accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings. Once again, congratulations from all the staff of the UK National Lottery headquarter.(Form HLP)REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/9420X2/68FULL NAME...............................................COMPANY NAME: ...........................................FULL ADDRESS: ...........................................SEX: .................................AGE...................................OCCUPATION.............................TEL.......................FAX................. (If any)COUNTRY................................E-MAIL..................................HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE: ............. (Identification on delivery)AMOUNT WON..........................BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/ INDIVIDUAL: ..................................................................................................................................................................................................____________________________ ___________________ Date. Signature.
For further clarification and verification sake, kindly view our website: http://www.lottery.co.uk/Upon receipt of the duly requested data, I’ll send you the contact information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.Warm Regards,Mr Mark Vendatine.

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