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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "lotterywinners06 lotterywinners06" <lotterywinners06@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:10:59 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF WINNING

NOTIFICATION DESK
2,Monck Street,
London,
SW1P 2BQ,
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

FILE NO: KPC/9080118308/02
TICKET NO: 56475600545188
BATCH NUMBER:UKNL/08178/05IK

UKNL NOTIFICATION DESK

We happily announce to you the draw of the U.K National Lottery International programs held on the 18th January 2006 in Croydon London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1.5.000.000, million pounds (GBP) in cash credited to file and batch numbers KPC/9080118308/02, UKNL/08178/05. This is from a total cash prize of £6.000.000 million pounds (GBP) shared among the first four (4) lucky winners in this category. 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 £1.5.000.000,million pounds(GBP)  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. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claiming are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous

elements.

Warning against fraud on the internet, we have alot of scams on the internet so you should be warn, against such act of claiming that they are the real lotto organization. Just incase you see another message that look like this, please dont reply it.

To file for your claiming, Please contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims.

AGENT:
Mr Mark Andery
mcanderyagent@msn.com

U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sincerely,
Sir Harrison Hayford
Zonal Co-ordinator

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam