419 scam: "Uk lottery Organization"<info@lottery.org> This message belongs to the owner of this email address

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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:

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.
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.
- +447035958266 (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.
- martinlee_42@yahoo.co.jp (Yahoo, Japan; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Uk lottery Organization" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <martinlee_42@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:00:22 -0700
Subject: This message belongs to the owner of this email address

UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

If you are the correct owner of this email address then be glad this day as the result of the UK lotto online e-mail address free-ticket winning draws of 10th of June 2011 held in Bangkok Thailand has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email address won you the sweeptakes in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6M.
Your email address was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number:
GFEKALDHE749KE and won on this Lucky Number: 849YA39GHMWQ

You are to contact Mr.Martin Lee on the below email address for quick
delivery of your won check of US$4.6M. Know that all winners check are
certified cashiers and when delivered and received by you, you can cash it in any bank of any country. To enable Mr. Martin Lee ascertain you as the rightful winner and receiver of the $4.6Million check MAKE SURE you include the below listed information in your contact mail to him.Your country of origin and country of residence/work, complete official names, amount won, free ticket and lucky numbers, date of draw, address where your wish to receive your winnings check contact telephone and mobile numbers. :- [Sex, age,

Mr. Martin Lee
Email-Address:martinlee_42@yahoo.co.jp

Just incase you are thinking of how you won without entering then know again that this very draw of the UK Lottery Organization in which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket online email address draws where thousands of email addresses was collected from almost all world wide websites and used for the online draws/sweeptakes and during winners selection your email address came out among the first ten which won you the lottery in the first winnings category
and entitles you to claim the check of $4,600,000.

From:Ambrose Michael
Online Winning Notification Department
Direct Line: +447035958266

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