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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:
  • "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 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.
  • +447011150142 (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.
  • claims_larryhookukonlineagent55@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "win@promo.org" <WEBDNXIEV401@prodigy.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:53:20 -0800
Subject: YOU HAVE WON!!!

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X)

The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Ref: WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the BRITISH
INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERYonline Sweepstakes International program held
the 10th FEB 2007 .
It is yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the
final NOTIFICATION as
regards this. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number:
56475300545 188 with Serial number 5368/05 drew the
lucky numbers: 4,
10, 23, 36, 37, 49 which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2nd
category i.e JACKPOT bonus. You have therefore been
approved to claim a
total sum of (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS)
in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize shared amongst the(3)
lucky winners in
this category i.e JACKPOT 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 is part
of the Country's
Programme to fund for the Olympic Games in 2012 The
L1.5bn Olympic
lottery


The Olympic fund-raising games will include a TV draw
The National
Lottery may have seemed a relatively simple way of
helping pay for the
Olympics. The Lottery must raise L1.5bn over the next
seven years to
pay its share of the public money going into the
Olympics. A further
L650m will be raised from council tax in London and
another L250m from the London Development Agency,
while similar sums
will be raised from ticket sales, marketing,
sponsorship and the sale
of television rights.

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 L1,666,667 will be
released to you our
payment office in UK. 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 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. To file for
your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Name:LARRY HOOK
Official Email:
claims_larryhookukonlineagent55@yahoo.co.uk
Tell: +44-701 115 0142


FILL CLAIMS PROCESSING FORM

1)full names......................
2)Winning numbers ...............
3)Winning email address ...................
4)Telephone and fax numbers .................
5)Nationality ...............
6)COntact Address ...............
7)Occupation ...............
8)Amount won ...............
9)Date of Birth ...............
10)Place of Birth .....................

Congratulations from me and members of staff of
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY.


Yours faithfully,
Florence Moore(Mrs)
Online coordinator
for BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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