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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:
  • "claims 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 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.
  • strawjoe@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Lucky day National lottery" <luckydaynationalottery@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:25:19 -0400
Subject: CONGRATULATIOS

LUCKYDAY NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Centre
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF
United Kingdom

FROM:THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,

REF: UNL/26510460037/02
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam
RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION;FINAL NOTICE
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
today, 11th,0f OCTOBER 2005, of winners of the LUCKYDAY NATIONAL
LOTTERY,THE UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 22th
AUGUST 2005 in Croydon,London.
You email address was attached to ticket number
023-0148-790-459, with serial number 5073-11 drew
the lucky numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently
won you the lottery in the 3rd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
of £725,000.00 british pounds in cash credited to file REF
NO. UNL/26510460037/02 . This is from total prize money
of £7,250,000.00(GBP) shared among the ten
international winners in this category. All participants were selected
randomly from World Wide Website through computer draw system and extracted
from over 100,000 companies from Australia,New Zealand,America,Europe,North
America,Africa and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which
is conducted annually. 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 £725,000.00 british pounds would be
released to you by our preferred payment center in London.
Our 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 claims
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 by some unscrupulous
elements.Please be warned.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants
of this program.
To file for your claim, please contact our payment
agent;
Mr. Straw joe
Email. strawjoe@myway.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize
money,please remember to quote your
reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later
than 12th,of NOVEMBER 2005. After this date, all funds will
be returned as unclaimed.
Furthermore, should there be any
change of your address, do inform your claims agent
as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank
you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
Sincerely,
Jox White
Zonal Co-ordinator

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