419 scam: "British Lucky Surf Promotions"<britishlottob@yahoo.co.uk> CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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")
- "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "million pounds" (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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "you are advice to " (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 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.
- +447024094829 (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.
- bbritishlotto@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "British Lucky Surf Promotions" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bbritishlotto@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:23:08 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
LUCKY SURF LUCKY PROMO IN CONJUCTION WITH
(BRITISH LOTTERY OLYMPIC PUZZLE)

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION:

REF NO: HFTI/941JUD/07
TICKET NO: NHF754/20/33

We the Board and Management of British/ Luck surf Lottery London, wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program held on 27th day of October, 2009. Your email account have been picked as a winner of 1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION POUNDS) this results is today released to you and your email address attached in the A Category. All email addresses were selected through a computer ballot system in which your email address was selected as one of the lucky winners

Most recently the organization set up the BRITISH LUCKY SURF LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS to give out prizes based on the computer ballot system. By doing this the organization seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.

This is in conjunction with the British £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm) The Lottery must raise £1.5bn over
the next seven years to pay its share of the public money going into the
Olympics.

We are please to inform you of the announcement today as one of the (10) lucky
winners in the BRITISH LUCKY SURF LOTTO draw held on 27th-10-2009. All winners from the lottery promotional program where randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 individual and company emails. Your email address emerged alongside nine (9) others as a category 'A' winner in this year's Annual British Surf Online Draw.

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 11 13 26 34 44 48
(ii) Email ticket number: NHF754/20/33
(iii) Lotto code number: NHFTI09622SP
(iv)The file Ref number: HFTI/941JUD/06

You are advice to contact the under listed authorized (Category "A"
Clearing Agent) as soon as possible for immediate release of your winnings:

MRS. JESSICA HINES.
MR. RICHARD GERARD
FOREIGN AUTHORIZED CLAIMS AGENTS,
TEL: +44-7024094829 FAX: +44-8447747810
Email: bbritishlotto@yahoo.co.uk

Your fund is now deposited and insured in your name with our accredited
Authorized Finance House. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your cash prize release to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous
Acts by other participants of this program.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to attach your reference, ticket number and Lotto Code number as quoted above in every one of your correspondence with your authorized Claims agent.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims
agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank
you for being part of our Lottery Promotion program.
Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Best Regards,
Mr.Paul Adams.
THE ZONAL PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
British Lucky Surf Promotions.

N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
2.Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.

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