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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (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.
  • +447031931346 (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.
  • 2005@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Frank" <njakili_utali@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: franknew_law2005@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:00:52 +0200
Subject: Congratulations



The National Lottery

P.O.Box 17,

Kempsford GL7 4WZ

London.

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)


10TH OF AUGUST 2006

Dear Lucky Winner,

THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SEASONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING

NOTIFICATION.

We happily announce to you the draw (#1082) of the UK LOTTERY SEASONAL

PROMO, online Sweepstakes International program held on 1st August,

2006.
Your e-mail address drew the lucky numbers: 02- 07-11- 21- 33- 34

(Bonus no.08), and subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e.

match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total

sum of £500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited

to file TU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £7,000000 shared amongst the (14)

lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus. 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. This promotion

takes place (ONCE IN EVERY YEAR). 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 £500,000

(Ninety Thousand and four pounds sterling) would 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 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 by our trustees.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and

unwarranted abuse of this program.
To begin the claiming processing of your prize winnings you are advised

to contact our only licensed and accredited fudiciary claims/agent with

the information below:

Name: Frank Newman

Email: franknew_law@2005@yahoo.co.uk

Phone: + 44 7031931346

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After

this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with

your claims agent.

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public

especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case

of double claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to

participate in this program.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Thank you and congratulations!!!


Yours faithfully,

John Brown.

UK lottery Promo Co-ordinator.

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