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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international court of justice" (not involved with lotteries)
  • "rovex house, hay hall rd." (address often used in fake lottery scams)
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "amsterdam holland" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447035900040 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +44770467378
• 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.
  • legalrights_25@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • stdalliancess@aim.com
  • smithgerald_1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: smith gerald <smithgerald_1@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 02:58:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONTACT ANY OF THE FIRMS/FOR YOUR CLAIMS. BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY


Good day! You are to provide your full contact information, including your confidential telephone number aswell. Failure to provide that you will be disqualified.


Monday 14th March 2007. thanks to her dedicated grandparents.
British Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.
LONDON
(Customer Services)

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
COPYRIGHT © 2005 ALL RIGHT RESERVED
>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
{ PAYMENT OPTIONS }

Dear Cash Winner :
With receipt of your notice as to informing the claim agent, you are entitle to your winnings you are to follow the lay down rules governing the lottery.Having done all the proper verification exercise from all our department, we found you worthy of the cash prize in our lottery program organized by UK National Lottery , All that we require from you now,

CLAIMING OF PRIZES

Now, you will be require to make a choice of how your want to recieve your winings and make contact to the various department. with all your winning informations, to claim your prize /money. you are to make me know how you want your prize sent to you, as we have told you, they are only three ways you can claim your prize,
!,By you going to claim it your self.

2,Documents for legal rights.

3, Online bank.

1, LEGAL RIGHTS OF CLAIMS.

Rovex House, Hay Hall Rd.,
Tyseley, Birmingham.
B11 2AG.Amsterdam Holland
Email: legalrights_25@yahoo.com
Contact Person: Mr James White


2, Bank Contacts

STANDARD ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL BANK
Standard alliance international bank.
{Eusteen Cambrigde way 123}
United kingdom london
Email:stdalliancess@aim.com
Contact phone number:{+44 70359 00040}
Fax:Telefax: +44-770-467-378
Account officer:Harry Jones




DEAR PRIZE WINNER YOU ARE TO INDICATE YOUR CHOOSEN OPTIONS OF CLIAMS
SEE BELOW A SPACE FOR INDICATING.
{1}...........................................
You are to contact not more than one of the above for your prize if
you do you will be disqualified.accept our congratulations and please notify me when you contact any of the listed firms.
NOTE: We will not be responsible for the charges
Kind Regards
Mr.Smith Gerald
N.B.
Be informed that the Uk lottery is opened for working 24hrs online to keep
our winners updated.


Your winning certificate should be kept confidentially untill your fund is redemmed from the paying firm, and this certificate has certify your winnings from the international court of justice, {I.C.J.}.

You are to keep it also for reference purposes, and when contacting any of the paying firm, you are to reach each of the firm with your winning certificate and your winning informations/a valid international {I.D CARD}
Note: That the british lottery will not be responsible for any upfront courier/bank charges of your fund.

Your winning certificate is attached to this message this has certify your approval of winnings from the international court of justice, you are to keep your winning informations confidentially untill funds is redeemed.

further more enquires you can reach the lottery board with this below contacts


Fudiciary desk phone number{+44 70457 21912} Email: smithgerald_1@yahoo.com
Mr Smith Gerald
Fudiciary Agent











ONCE MORE CONGRATULATIONS

NOTE:THAT THE FIDUCIARY DESK PHONE NUMBERS ONLY WORK DURING THE OFFICE HOURS.





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