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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • johnsmith9200@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "U.k National Lottery" <uklottery233@msn.com>
Reply-To: johnsmith9200@sify.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:18:56 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION IN YOUR NOMINATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY 2006...

 

THE UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY 2006                                                     UK Lottery Headquarters Customer Service                                                                      33 YATCH BASIN MARINA  OFFICES, UPON TYNE NEWCASTLE. LONDON 17/01/2006   Batch: 14/211/0374   Ref: BTL/311OXI/02                               WINNING NOTIFICATION    We happily announce to you the draw of the British lottery programs programs held on the 8th of January 2006 in London, Your e-mail address attached, to ticket number: 694 75600545 721 with Serial number: 886/04 drew the lucky numbers: 01-6-2-13-35-17, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of GBP  £ 900,000.00 ( Nine hundred thousand  Great Britain Pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file RPC/9080115322/44. This is from a total cash prize of GBP £ 125 million pounds sterlings. This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for UK Lottery, The estimated £ 125 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history.The biggest was the £ 363 million pounds sterlings jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big Game, Mega Millions' predecessor. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your GBP £  900,000.00 (Nine hundred thousand, Great Britain Pounds Sterlings) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in UK.   Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him/her.   All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100, 000 database worldwide . This promotion takes place annually and it is been funded by notable multi-national companies, government functionaries and individuals with a vision to distribute wealth world-wide.   To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims. FIDUCIARY AGENT: JOHN SMITH Email: johnsmith9200@sify.com   To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please provide the following information to the fiduciary agent to m ensure adequate processing of claim:   NAME:.................................. ADDRESS:............................... NATIONALITY:........................... SEX:................................... AGE:................................... PHONE/MOBILE:.......................... FAX:................................... OCCUPATION:............................ COMPANY:............................... BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:............................................ Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.   Sincerely, Mr Simmon Russells Co-ordinator   Warning!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be using The UK National Lottery addresses, but are not from The UK Lottery Headquarters PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO:  CUSTOMER CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT: support@ukloterry-mail.com   PICTORAL VIEW OF LAST WINNERS OF THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY 2005                       Copyright © 1994-2006 The UK National Lottery Inc.                     All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline          77635 476378 255667460

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