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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 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.
  • +447031947939 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448701301829 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Jennifer Dave" <lottery_nationale4@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:29:37 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION.

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

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program
held on Saturday 22nd October 2005 and was officially
announce Today Friday 28th October 2005.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky
numbers: 18-20-22-30-32-39(bonus ball no.03), 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 £440,000(Four Hundred And Fourty Thousand Great
Britain Pounds Sterlings) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £880,000 shared amongst
the first two (2)jackpot lucky winners in this category i.e
Match 6.All participants for the online version were
selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online which are America,Africa, Asia, Australia,Europe,
Middle East, and Oceania.

This promotion takes place weekly.Please note that your
lucky winning number falls within our europe booklet
representative office in europe as indicated in your play
coupon.In view of this,You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £440,000(Four Hundred And Fourty
Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterlings)would be released
to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our europe agents will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
them.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.Please be
warned.To file for your claim, please contact our FIDUCIARY
agent via Email:

MR ALAN COCKBURN BROWN
Email Address:awards_department@uk2.net
TEL #:+44-703-194-7939
TEL #:+44-703-194-7940
FAX:+44-870-130-1829

For further clarification/verification of your claims,
Please call any of the phone number of our fiduciary agent
stated in this notification e-mail.You can go to our online
result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also
get a prize
breakdown:http://www.national-lottery.com/

Goodluck and congratulation from all members of staff of
the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs Jennifer Dave.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

Anti-fraud resources:

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