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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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 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.
  • john_jefferson1000@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: United Kingdom lottery <uklotto_winningnote@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:39:54 +0100 (BST)
Subject: LOTTO PRIZE CONFIRMATION


Dear sir/Madam.
We will like to let you know that your mail was acknowledged and honored concerning your claims for the on-going UKNATIONAL LOTTERY
And we hereby once again congratulate you for being a winner in the LOTTERY being help in uk with the file no..file KTU/9023118308/03
and ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: (#966) for you email address.
But we will like to get a confirmation mail from you due to errors in the balotting and so there were some ommisions so we will need you to
to update your record with us by sending us the following information..So we will like you to send us the remaining information yet to be filled in the asteriked gaps below..
This is not a routinal way of claiming your price but due to illegal claims that we get and was not isued or drawn by us during the lottery. we will be securing your claims as you are a legal winner of the lottery.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. 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.
And you mail was selected at random.So after you have sent us the confirmation mail and the informations we requested for,Our London agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact 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.And we can refer you to our fiduciary agent who you can contact for any question or councelling concerning this LOTTERY or you WINNING CLAIMS. at john_jefferson1000@yahoo.com.
We will like to hear from you as soon as posible so we can further your claims and refer you to our financier in charge of the Lottery claim issuance and fund payment.
Congratulations..
Good luck from members of staff of the U.K
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
UK,London


FULL NAME
****************
CONTACT ADDRESS
****************
TEL
****************
SEX
******
FILE NO
KTU/9023118308
TICKET NO
56475600545188
SERIAL NO
5368/02



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