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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • sir_bradley_scot44@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "williams jones" <dr.williams_jones66@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:12:41 +0100
Subject: YOU'R A LUCKY WINNER @ alllotto.co.uk

AllLotto-UK Lottery

    
      28 ROMFORD AVENUE FOREST GATE,
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. 
                                            

 

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

ATTN: DEAR WINNER,

REF NB: 02/005/IPD
BATCH NB: 36/2006

ON BEHALF OF THE U.K LOTTERY AND FROM THE DESK OF THE CLAIMS DEPARTMENT, WE GLADLY NOTIFY YOU OF YOUR LUCKY WIN OF A TOTAL OF £ 2,600,000 POUNDS STERLING ONLY, IN THE ON-GOING DRAWS, HELD ON THE 1ST NOVEMBER, 2006

YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS CAME OUT IN OUR COMPUTER BALLOTING SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 15 MILLION E-MAIL FROM AUSTRALIA, ASIA, SOUTH AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE AS PART OF OUR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAM, WHICH IS CONDUCTED WEEKLY

YOUR E-MAIL WAS ATTACHED TO TICKET NUMBER: 36-025-7509-1146, 

THE WINNING Lotto NUMBERS ARE: 9, 13, 14, 20, 31, 35, Bonus 32

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW, OR COPY TO A NEW WINDOW AND CLICK GO  TO CONFIRM YOUR WINNINGS

 www.alllotto.co.uk 

YOUR WINNING FALLS UNDER THE BOOKLET OF OUR EUROPEAN COORDINATOR. TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE, YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY REQUIRED TO CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT, QOUTING YOUR REF. NB, AND YOUR BATCH NB WITHIN YOU REPLY, USING THE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW:

NAME: SIR, BRADLEY SCOT
(EUROPEAN FIDUCIARY AGENT)
Email: sir_bradley_scot44@yahoo.com

ONCE AGAIN, ON BEHALF OF U.K LOTTERY TEAM, WE SAY CONGRATULATIONS.

YOURS SINCERELY:
DR. WILLIAMS JONES.
HEAD, ONLINE CONTACT TEAM.
U.K LOTTERY.

WARNING:

1. YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED, IF UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

2. YOU ARE HIGHLY ADVISED TO KEEP YOUR PRIZE WINNING SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL AND FROM PUBLIC NOTICE, UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETELY TRANSFERRED YOUR PRIZE, TO AVOID ANY LOSS TO UNSCRUPULOUS INDIVIDUALS, AS WE DID NOT EVEN PUBLISH YOUR NAME/EMAIL ON THE WEBSITE, TO PROTECT YOU AND YOUR PRIZE MONEY.

3. YOUR PRIZE MONEY WILL BE FORFEITED IF YOU REFUSE TO CLAIM IT, ON OR BEFORE THE 15th OF NOVEMBER, 2006 SO CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT IMMEDIATELY

 

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