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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")
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447031893647 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709743850 (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.
  • barrandersongreen1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY <uk_megawin60@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:43:23 +0000
Subject: NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING!!

The U.K. National Lottery
2 Lansdowne Row,
Berkele= y Square,

Londom 1j6H,

C= ustomer Service/Claims Department.

 

Daily Draw Result :
http://= www.national-lottery.com/resultsnational.asp

Ref: BTL/4910xl/04

Batch: 12<= FONT face=3DVerdana>/25/0304

 

Dear Winner,=

  &nb= sp;           =   NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING!!

We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the BRITIS= H NATIONAL LOTTERY, online British National Lottery program held on&n= bsp;24th January, 2007.Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number:= 8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the Winning numbers:02= ,08,10,31,46,48 (bonus no.12),which subsequently won you the lottery = in the 2nd category i.e match 3 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of&n= bsp; =A31,000,000.00 (One Million pound Sterling) in cash credit= ed to your file.

This is from a total cash prize of =A320,350,000.00,shar= ed amongst the Winners with different amount won in this category i.e= Match 3 plus bonus.All participants for the online version were sele= cted randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system = and extracted fromover 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bo= dies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place weekly.Your lucky winning numbe= r falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe a= s indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your =A31,000,000.0= 0 (One Million pound Sterling) will be released to you by any of our = payment offices in Europe.Our European agent will immediately commenc= e the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you = contact her. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winni= ng information confidential till your claim is processed and your mon= ey remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your priz= e.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid doubl= e claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To= file for your claim, Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATI= ON AND CLAIM.

 

Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) f= or this endeavor, your email was selected by our E.L.D.S= .(e-Lottery=AE) randomly.

 

NOTE: We had to wait for all W= inners who purchased the Lottery Ticket(s) to claim their prizes= before notifying you who won *Online* even without your knowled= ge. This is the reason we have not notified you of you= r winnings before now. Do not respond to us, contact your fiduci= ary claim agent through their honorable office contact details listed= below.

 

********************************************************= ***********

Barrister Anderson Green.
FIDUCIARY AGENT, Payment an= d Release order
Department,UK NATIOANL CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY A= GENT.
OCEANIC BT, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Email: barrandersongreen1@yahoo.co.uk=
Tel:+44-703-189-3647
Fax:+44-870-974-3850

********************************************************= ***********

Endeavour to contact your fiduciary claim agen= t for the immediate processing, verification an= d legalization of claims inorder for payment to be made to <= STRONG>you as required, inaccordance with our payout policy.

 

Congratulations from me and members of staf= f of THE BRITISH (UK) NATIONAL LOTTERY.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Mrs. Scott Voke.

Online Coordinator for THE BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.&nbs= p;         &n= bsp;           = ;       

 

  =            &nb= sp;           =            &nb= sp;  

LOTTERY SPONSO= RS: CHIEF SPONSORS;

 

MICROSOFT C= ORPORATION UK,         &= nbsp;   MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA, <= SPAN style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">

MICROSOFT C= ORPORATION USA,         =   MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.

 

=  

Past winners.

        &nbs= p;           &= nbsp;         

        &= nbsp;    THE NATIONAL LOTTERY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (U= K)

  =            &nb= sp;   UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
   &= nbsp;      COPYRIGHT =A9 2007 ALL RIGHT= RESERVED

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