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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")
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: "ASIAN PRIZE AWARD DEPT" <nationallotteryprogram999@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:05:34 +0700
Subject: CONTACT DR.W.Watcharaporn (ASIA PACIFIC REPRESENTATIVE )

The Royal National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
An Affiliate of UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 12th October, 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 1942896-9032 with serial number A001490 drew lucky numbers 11-0-17-31-60- 75-9 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,000,000.00 Dollars (One Million US Dollars)
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
You will need to have your identification documents and claims form notarized by the fiduciary agent (below) before a magistrate or notary public in our agents all over the world. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 10,000,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world, names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia as part of International Promotions Program. This promotional program takes place once a year.
This promotional program is promoted by the software and internet giant corporations.It is met to reward some individuals and corporations compensate some few individuals who have devoted their time and resources surfing the world wide web (www) with their email addresses and the use of computer software and for the benefit of every Microsoft user. We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year US$20million Dollars international lottery.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Asian booklet representative office in Asia as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your $1,000,000.00 (One million dollars ) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Asia.Our Asian agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
To file in for your claims, please contact the company processing officer.
Dr. Williams Watcharaporn Jr.
Claims processing manager
ASIA PACIFIC REPRESENTATIVE
Email: dr_williams10110@walla.com
TEL:+66-90-724282
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than (30th October.2005) and Winning claims begins (17th October, 2005}. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next year stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and Complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
You are also advised to send a copy of this email, to your claims agent Dr. Williams Watcharaporn Jr., when contacting him.You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process of collecting your prize. We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.
Lastly, should there be any change of address do Inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff for being part of our promotional program.
Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.
Sincerely Yours,
Mrs. Anna-maria Vanbel.
Lottery Coordinator
Royal National Lottery Program,
United Kingdom.

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