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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")
  • "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 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.
  • +447024072621 (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.
  • agentterryedwards@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK LOTTERY BOARD HEADQUATERS" <agentterryedwards@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:19:03 -1200
Subject: !!!CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER!!!



The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369


WINNING
NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#1059) of the UK
NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on
Wednesday 15th Febuary, 2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names and e-mail addresses
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 weekly to encourage
prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your
prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery
jackpots.
The result of our computer draw (#988) selected your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
05-11-12-16-17-45(bonus no.42), which subsequently won you
the lottery in the 2nd category (match 5 plus Bonus ).
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£250,132(TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND
THIRTY-TWO POUNDS STERLINGS) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£750,396 shared amongst the Three(3) lucky winners in the
2nd category.


NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £ s PER WINNER
TOTAL

Match 6 3
£812,931
£2,438,793


Match 5 plus bonus 3
£250,132 £750,396



Match 5 353
£1,328
£468,784


Match 4 21673
£47
£1,018,631


Match 3 405126
£10
£4,051,260


Totals 427158

£8,727,864

Additional Information:
Jackpot winner(s) 3
Machine used for Draw OPAL
Winners by Lucky Dip ;114543
Ball set used 8
All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw
system and extracted from over 100,000 Unions, associations,
and corporate bodies that are listed online.
Your prize award has been insured in your name 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 you 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 £250,132(TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO POUNDS STERLINGS)
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
further notice.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds to you.
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:
Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
MR TERRY EDWARDS
Emails;agentterryedwards@myway.com
phone; +447024072621 or+447024066096
fax;+447075055660
You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your
winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm.





VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM




ATTN: ONCE AGAIN THE WHOLE OF THE NATIONAL UK LOTTERY STAFFS
ARE CONGRATULATING YOU, SO PLEASE GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS TO ENABLE US FILE
YOUR CLAIMS. AND WE WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR CLAIMS
WAS PICKED BY RANDOM SEARCH OF EMAILS AND YOU WERE FIXED AT
THE DRAW WHICH YOU CAME OUT SUCESSFULLY THAT IS WHY YOU WERE
NOTED SO PLEASE FILL OUT THE INFORMATION BELOW SO THAT WE
PROCEED WITH YOUR CLAIMS.

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________

2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

____________________________________________

3.SEX:_______________

4.AGE:________


5MARITAL STATUS:___________________

6.OCCUPATION:________________________

7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________

8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________

9.BATCH NUMBER:____________________ B. REF
NUMBER:______________

10.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________
11.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________

___________________________________________


12. COUNTRY________________________________


Upon receipt 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.

Warm Regards,



TERRY EDWARDS(MR)




NB.
1) You have recieved this email Because your email address
was included in our Lottery database.if you are not
interested in claiming your winning, please send us a blank
email with the subject "Disclaimer";

2) Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winner(s) will result to
disqualification.


Please be Warned!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that
appear to be using National Lottery addresses, but are not
from The National Lottery.Ignore any such mail


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