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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 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.
  • agentpaulsmith_uknl@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <mrslesleyb5@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:14:57 -0700
Subject: FIRST AND FINAL WINNER NOTIFICATION

UK National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

Ref : UK/OSA/3764890X2/23
Batch: 074/06/83734369

FIRST AND FINAL WINNER NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the Draw #1089 of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
program held on Tuesday, August 15, 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 8603775966738 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew our Winning numbers: 04, 16, 32, 34,35,37 Bonus
Ball [01] which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $2,924, 309.00
(Two Million,Nine Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Nine
US Dollars Only) in cash credited to your file. This is from a total
cash prize of $8,433,802.00 shared amongst the first To Fifth (1-5) with
different amount won in this category i.e. Match 3 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 weekly.Your lucky winning number falls
within our Overseas booklet representative office in Africa as indicated
in your play coupon. In view of this, your $2,924,309.00 (Two
Million,Nine Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Nine US
Dollars) will be released to you by our Africa payment office in Ghana as
soon
as you contact your
agent for validation purposes. Our agent will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
him.

To file for your claim, Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for
VALIDATION.
*******************************************************************
Paul Smith,
OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENT
Phone: +233-27-694-7459
Email: agentpaulsmith_uknl@yahoo.co.uk
********************************************************************
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
onfidential 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. Any breach of confidentiality on the
part of the winners will result in automatic disqualification.
Endeavor to contact your agent as instructed providing him the
following information for validation purposes:

First Name: _______________________________
Last Name: _______________________________
Winning Email: ____________________________
Phone Number: _____________________________
Address: _________________________________
Zip / Postal code: _________________________
AMOUNT WON: _______________________________
OCCUPATION: _______________________________
TICKET NUMBER: _____________________________
SERIAL NUMBER: _____________________________
DRAW NUMBER: _______________________________
MARITAL STATUS: ____________________________
SEX: ______________________________________
AGE: ______________________________________

Yours Faithfully,
Lesley Becker (Mrs.)

Online coordinator for THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes
International Program.
NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION MESAGE. REPLY ONLY TO YOUR
AGENT AS INTRUCTED.
Congratulations from me and members and staff of The UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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