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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")
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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 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.
  • rjames111@freeuk.com

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?jsim11@eresmas.com=20?=" <jsim11@eresmas.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:44:17 +0200
Subject: ANNUAL AWARD WINNER.


THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the 20th of September 2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual
FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 2,000,000 pounds (Two million pounds) only.The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Mr.Robert James.
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
TEL: 44 7040 104 181
FAX: 44 871 521 4636
rjames111@freeuk.com



N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;

1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.

2.Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number
and means of identification (international passport or drivers licence)to claim officer, via email or fax, to process the immediate payment of your prize.

3.Your fund can be release from either of the following options and you are required to choose the mode in which you want your claim released to you.
(a). International Bank Draft
(b). Certified cheque
(c). Wire transfer.

If you choose option 3, you are required to provide your account details.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Julia Simson
Promotions Manager
The Lotto company
UK & Europe.


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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.The freelotto internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com and take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto service.


FORM
Under Free Lottery Winners International
United Kingdom.
LOTTERY PAYMENT APPLICATION FORM
(To be completed by lottery winners only)
Ticket Number: .............................
Reference Number: .............................
Batch Number: .............................
First Name: .............................
Last Name: .............................
Home Address: .............................
Town/City: .............................
Post Code: .............................
Country: ..................................
Telephone (Home): .............................
Mobile: .............................
Fax (Private): .............................
Fax (Office): .............................
Email Address: .............................
Date of Birth: .............................
Occupation: .............................
Marital Status: .............................
I.............................hereby declare that the above information are true and binding on me. If at any time it is discovered that I have given false information, I will forfeit my rights to my winnings.
Sincerely yours,



IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Please be informed that NON RESIDENTS of United Kingdom will be required to procure an Affidavits of Lotto Claim/Court clearance certificate from the Court in United kingdom prior to award payment policy of Organisers/European Gaming Board as required by the Fiduciary Agent.

Please be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this Fiduciary Agent.



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