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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447023057639 (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.
  • frank@winning.com

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY." <mrs_c_beckford09@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0000
Subject: Your Lottery Winning Notification.

UK National Lottery Headquarters
Online Lottery Promo Dept.
Customer Service.
4-1-2006

Batch N0: 16/031/0026
Ref N0: KLP/092605/01/ZE

Attn: Winner.

We happily bring to your notice the results of the UK National Lottery
annual draw held on the 28th of December 2005 in London. The online lotto
draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 100,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.

Congratulations!

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial
number: 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently
won you a prize in the category “B”. You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £4,200,000.00 (Four Million, Two Hundred Thousand Great
British Pounds) in cash credited to file Ref N0: KLP/092605/01/ZE.

This prize is from a total cash prize of £12,600,000.00 (Twelve Million, Six
Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) shared amongst the first Three (3)
lucky winners only in this grand category "B". This year Lottery program
Jackpot is the largest ever for the UK National Lottery.

The estimated £35,000,000.00 (Thirty Five Million Great British Pounds)
jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history next year.

The Lowest was the £4,000,000.00 (Four Million Great British Pounds) jackpot
that was shared between two (2) lucky winners in December 2004 draw of the
Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.

For security reasons, be advised to keep your winning information
confidential until your claims is processed and your prize money remitted to
you as required in this grand category “B" terms and conditions of claims.
This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by non winners.

Please note that, your lucky winning number falls within our European
Booklet representative office in London as indicated in our play Coupon. In
view of this, your £4,200,000.00 (Four Million, Two Hundred Thousand Great
British Pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate bank.

Our approved agent, The Trans Atlantic Company will immediately commence on
the processing of your claims, to facilitate the release of your prize to
you as soon as you make contact with them.

Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim, kindly contact our
Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "B" winners with the
information below:
****************************************************************
******************************
Name: Mr. Frank Anderson.
E-mail: frank@winning.com
Tel: +44 702 305 7639
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order Department, Trans
Atlantic S.A London, United Kingdom.
****************************************************************
******************************
You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

Note that, all claims processes and clearance procedures must be duly
completed early to avoid impersonation and or double claiming.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
Reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated
agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of the UK National
Lottery Promo.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Claudia Beckford.
Online Coordinator
UK National Lottery Promo.

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