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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• 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.
  • tmore.chambers@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: tmore.chambers@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:09:09 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!!









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REF Nº: UK/9420X2/68

BATCH Nº:074/05/ZY369

FROM: THE DESK OF UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.





AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE







U.K National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the

E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held

this month.Your email account have been picked as a winner of SEVEN

HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING (£750,000).

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World

Wide Web sites 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 winning must be claimed not later than 2 weeks after notification.

After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union

Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays

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 Bar Thomas More

Email: tmore.chambers@hotmail.com



You are to forward the following details to enable the management clear

your file for immediate payment:

Claims Requirements:



1. Full Name:.....................................

2. Address:.......................................

3. Nationality:...................................

4. Age:.......... Date of Birth:.................

5. Occupation:....................Nature of Work................

6. Phone:................Fax:.....................

7. State of Origin:...........Country:............

8. Sex:.............................................

9. Winning Email Address:



(a) DELIVERY OF CHEQUE VIA COURIER:

(b)CONTACT THE TRANSFERRING BANK & TRANSFER OF YOUR WINNINGS INTO YOUR

ACCOUNT IN YOUR HOME COUNTRY:



Choose one of the options and inform your agent about this option.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and

press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so

desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of

confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems

associated with fraudulent claims.



Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email

account users program.

Mr. Peter Thomas, Dr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Rev.

Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Steve

White (Director International funds Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy

(Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).MRS

JULIE VAN HANS (VICE PRESIDENT)



Yours faithfully,



Miss.Mary R. Kerns.

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program.

Copyright All rights reserved. 1994-2008



Copyright © 2008 U.K National Lottery International

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