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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 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:
  • "claim 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.
  • oversseaclaimcentre@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "United Nations" <unitednationsonline_2006@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:12:58 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/70
Batch: 074/05/ZY345

FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Dear Lucky Winner,
BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to notify you the draw (#1053) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,Online Sweepstakes
International Lottery Program held on Saturday 21st January,
2006.Participants were selected througha computer ballot system drawn from a
pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from Europe,
America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand,
Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our
international promotions
programme conducted twice in a week to encourage prospective overseas
entries. The internet
emailing diea was used, since most people do are not able to purchase
tickets and play outside the
UK. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our
subsequent lottery jackpots.The result of our computer draw (#1051) selected

your name and email address attached to e-ticket number: 56475612545 187
with Serial number

5368/03 drew the lucky number:




07 14 24 37 43 48 29



which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 6.ou
have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of £691,252 (Six hundred and ninety one
thousand, two hundred and fifty two pounds sterling) in cash credited to
file KTU/9023118308/07.This is from a total cash

prize of £2,073,756 (Two million, seventy three thousand, seven hundred and
fifty six pounds sterling), to be shared by you and two others, in this
category i.e. Match 6.You can check your
winning by matching your lucky numbers on our result checking page in the
link below
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/result
s/winCheck/winCheckerStart.do
Your prize award has been insured in your email and is ready for claims. To
begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our
licensed and accredited claim agent
for Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21 days (date of this email
inclusive) for the
processing of your winning and remittance to your designated bank account
after all statutory
obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.
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 £691,252 (Six hundred and ninety one thousand, two hundred and
fifty two pounds
sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in
Europe.Please be informed that
claims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the
pool without furthernotice.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds
as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish contact via e-mail
with the particulars
presented below sending the batch and reference numbers and these
informations below for quick
verifications and release of funds. between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on
Monday through Sunday

OVERSEAS CLAIMS UNIT.
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Mr. James Kelvin
Email: oversseaclaimcentre@yahoo.com.hk

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the
end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to
maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings
to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of
our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program. Any lottery double claim dedected by
our monitoring committee will lead to the Uk national lottery cancelling the
winnings. making a loss for both the real winner, and the fake (intended)
claimer.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Mrs. Calister Green.
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
COPYRIGHT © 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED.

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