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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• 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.
  • +447024036135 (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.
  • claimsdpt26@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: ty3erw@mchsi.com (The National Lottery Board.)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:27:09 +0000
Subject: Congratulations..........Your Email Won.

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
London,Uk
Ref: UK/9420X2/68

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (1190) of the UK

NATIONAL LOTTERY THUNDER BALL,online Sweepstakes held on 19

May 2007,in London. Your e-mail address attached to Serial

#8/02 .which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd

category i.e match 6.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of

£7,923,399(Seven Million,Nine Hundred And Twenty Three

Thousand,Three Hundred And Ninety Nine Thousand Pounds

Sterling Only)in cash,credited to file ktu/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £103,004,187 Pounds,

shared amongst the first thirteen (13)lucky winners in this

category. All participants for this online version were

selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through

computer draw system (AMETHYST)and extracted from over

100,000 unions, associations,and corporate bodies that are

listed online.

You are to fill the Verification form and get to your

Fiduciary agent for the released of your funds.

John Smith
EMAIL: claimsdpt26@yahoo.co.uk
TEL:+44 702 403 6135
+44 703 181 9521
+44 703 181 9611


(Form HLP)
REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/9420X2/68
FULL NAME:
FULL ADDRESS:
SEX:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
E-MAIL:
CELL...
PHONE...
FAX..
COUNTRY:
NATIONALITY:

Congratulations once again from all members and staff of

this program.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery

programs.

Yours faithfully,
Mark Norton
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam