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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:

• 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:
  • "microsoft corp world lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• 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")
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +447024072464 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709749892 (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.
  • claims20083@yahoo.co.uk
  • clms@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "candidonline Gazeta.pl" <candidonline@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:16:37 -0700
Subject: HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE


[image: British Flag]* The Microsoft Corp World Lottery , United
Kingdom*
*P O Box 1010 Liverpool , L70 1NL
United Kingdom .


Winning Numbers
887
13
865
37
10
83
WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw(#953)of the MICROSOFT CORP WORLD LOTTERY
AWARD International programs held in U.K your "email address" was attached
to ticket number;B9665 75604546 199 serial number 97560, This batch draws
the lucky winning numbers as follows 887/13/865/37/10/83, bonus number 2,
which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada , Australia ,
United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £ 350,000 (THREE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS in cash credited to file
MSW-L/200-26937

This is from a total cash prize of £50,000,000 shared among the (25)
Twenty-Five lucky winners in this 2nd category. Furthermore your details
(e-mail address) falls within our LONDON Representative Office in United
Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize sum of £350,000
(THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) will be remitted
to you by our paying bank.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Simply contact our Fiduciary Claim Agent in LONDON where your own Payment
is zoned. He will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release
of your winning price . His contact details is shown below:

Claim Manager: Robert Nelson.
TEL: +44-702-407-2464.
FAX: +44-870-974-9892
Emai; claims20083@yahoo.co.uk
Email; clms@hotmail.co.uk<http://us.f343.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=clms@hotmail.co.uk>

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent
immediately with the below information's:

NAME:
ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY:
SEX:
AGE:
PHONE/MOBILE:
FAX:
OCCUPATION:
COMPANY:
BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates. We wish
you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your cash prize is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever means you wish to recieve your cash prize by our paying
bank.
Endevour to contact the agent with the required information's
immediately.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!!

Congratulations!!! once more on behalf of members and staff of the BRITISH
AWARD LOTTERY 2008.


Congratulations once again.
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/_javascript:ol%28%27http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/__javascript:olhttp://www.freelotto.com/offer.asp?offer%253d43761%2526amp;FID%253dfa7d27913658;%27%29;>

Yours in service,

Mr. Richard K Lloyd.



NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO,
KINDLY CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT IN LONDON DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER
DIRECTIONS.

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