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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")
• 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.
  • +447023050769 (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.
  • claimsagent_philip05@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY GAMES" <uk_lottogames2006@msn.com>
Reply-To: uk_lottogamesonline2006@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:12:25 +0000
Subject: UK National Lottery (4TH FEB 2006).


NOTIFICATION DESK
2,Monck Street,
London,
SW1P 2BQ,
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
FILE NO: KPC/9080118308/02
TICKET NO: 56475600545188
BATCH NUMBER:UKNL/08178/05IK

UKNL NOTIFICATION DESK

We happily announce to you the draw of the U.K National Lottery
International programs held on the 4th Feb 2006 in Croydon London.Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number
5388/02 drew the lucky numbers:01-03-06-22-23-39-21, which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £600,000 british pounds in cash credited to file and
batch numbers KPC/9080118308/02,UKNL/08178/05.This is from a total cash
prize of £6,000,000(GBP) shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in
this category. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play
coupon. In view of this, your £600,000 british pounds would be released to
you by our preferred payment center in London.Our agent will immediately
commence the process of your claim.

Facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. All
participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website through computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.This promotion takes
place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims are processed and your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is
a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
PLEASE BE WARNED!!!!!

To file for your claim,Please contact our fiduciary agent with the
below details for processing of your claims.
AGENT:
Mr Philip White
Phone:+447023050769
Email:claimsagent_philip05@yahoo.co.uk
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

NKL Direct developed a mathematical system that improves our
players’ chances of winning one of the richest, tax free, lump sum lotteries
in the world - The UK National Lotto, which has had a jackpot prize as high
as £42,000,000 GBP (65,000,000 EUR).NKL’s e-Lottery system is already
working for thousands of members across the globe.Our results so far how
2474 syndicate wins and 121226 individual winnings payouts from just 229
Lotto draws. Whether you have or never played a lottery before, or you are a
lottery expert, we have a system that is Simple -Convenient-Affordable - and
Fun! You have A Big Advantage.Playing by yourself with a single entry, your
odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 14 million. The good news is, playing.

The e-Lottery system dramatically increases your chances of scooping
the jackpot by 86% and you also have a 1 in 13 chance of winning any
prize.You only need 5 main numbers to WIN the JACKPOT, when everybody else
needs 6 main numbers.This is a huge advantage!! 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 staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our
promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Sir Harrison Hayford
Zonal Co-ordinator.

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