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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • +447031851070 (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.
  • mohammedsalooje1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • bryansharon_lottocoodinator@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "MEGA LOTTERY SERVICES" <megalottery_uk@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:16:12 +0000
Subject: WINNER !

NOTE: CALL YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AND CLAIM YOUR WINNINGS AS DIRECTED BELOW.

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services) Ref: UK/9522X4/68 Batch: 254/35/ZY356 FINAL WINNING
NOTIFICATION: We happily announce to you the draw (#787) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, Online Sweepstakes International program held on Thursday 5th of
Januray , 2006. It is yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the final
NOTIFICATION as regards this. Your e-mail address was attached to the ticket
number: 65074690535 378 with Serial number 5468/67 drew the lucky numbers:
2-9-11-14-16-46 (bonus no.56), which subsequently won you the lottery in the
4nd category i.e match 12 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000 (One
Million Pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/2524138307/07. This is
from a total cash prize of £960,755 shared amongst the (8) lucky winners in
this category i.e Match 12 plus bonus. All participants for the online
version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer
draw system and extracted from over 155,000 unions, associations, and
corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of
this, your £1,000,000 (One Million Pounds sterling) will be released to you
by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contacted him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program.

Please be warned. To File For Your Claim, Please Contact Our
Fiduciary
Agent:
Name:Mr.Mohammed Salooje
Tel:+44-7031851070
Tel:+44-7031818645
Email :mohammedsalooje1@yahoo.com


Official Email:Endeavour to email swiftly regarding your winnings
immediately. Congratulations from me and members of the staff of THE UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY. CLAIMS PROCESSING FORM. Congratulations once again
from all the staff here. In order to verify your winnings, we need your
particulars for record purposes. Attached here is a copy of our
verifications form. Please fill in accordingly so as to proceed with your
winnings. Once again congratulations from all the staff.


1.FULL NAMES: ______________________________________________________
2.NATIONALITY: ______________________________________________________
3.DATE
OF BIRTH ________________________________________
4.SEX: _________________________
5.MARITAL STATUS: _____________________________________
6.CONTACT ADDRESS: _____________________________________________
7.TELEPHONE
NUMBER: ___________________
8.OCCUPATION: _________________________________
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_______________________________________
10.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:________________________________
11.WINNING NUMBER:_________________________________________
12 TOTAL AMOUNT WON:_________________________________________


Upon reciept of the duly requested data, I will send you the contact
information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the
release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

Best regards,
Sharon Bryan.
Online Co-ordinator For
THE UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY Sweepstakes International Program.
bryansharon_lottocoodinator@yahoo.co.uk


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