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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 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_beckford12@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:25:36 +0000
Subject: Your Lottery Winning Notification.

UK National Lottery Headquarters
Online Lottery Promo Dept.
Customer Service.
02-02-2006

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 25th of january 2006 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 January

2005draw 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
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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