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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 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.
  • agent_henry@sify.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Uk National" <uk_nationallotterypromo_003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: agent_henry@sify.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:03:50 -0500
Subject: COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON!!!!





The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref no;/Nas/9410y1/04
Batch no;/04/06/MA34

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you again, the draw (#470) of the THUNDERBALL
WINNING under the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International
program held on 23rd of DECEMBER 2005.Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number:77770064638 with Serial number;67345/04 drew the lucky numbers
;12-8-9-11-12-5.which subsequently won you the lottery of the Jackpot
Prize.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£1,000,000.00 (One Million pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.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. This promotion takes place ones at the end of every
year.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 £100,000.000.00 would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe. Our European 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. Please be warned. To file for your
claim,please contact our fiduciary agent via
E.mail;agent_henry@sify.com.

Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Carl Philips.
Online co-ordinator

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY



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