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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:

• 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 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.
  • +447031847999 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +31629338244 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +31641593184 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • j_adams@cieux.zzn.com
  • euroadams0@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Estella Rogers" <estellarogers2007@zwallet.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:48:27 +0400
Subject: CONGRATULATION


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Tel: ++44 703 184 7999
Fax: ++44 207 681 1565
Ref: UK/9420X31/68EAPG
Batch: EAPG/703/05/ZY936
Website:http://www.lottery.co.uk


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#459) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes
International program held on Saturday 11th January, 2006. Your E-mail
address attached to ticket
number: 62911465897-188 with Serial number 72684/03 drew the lucky number
which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd A category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000.00 (One
Million ,Five Hundred
Thousand Pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This
is from a total cash prize
of £12,000,000 shared amongst the First Eight (8) lucky winners in this
category .

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 (Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand,
Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North
& South America, as part of our International Promotions Program.

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
£1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred
Thousand British Pounds sterling) 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 her.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential until your claim is
processed, Beneficiary Certificate Ownership, Stamp duties 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 in the
Netherlands: MR. JOHNSON ADAMS

Tel: ++31 629 338 244
FAX: +31-641-593-184
E-mail: j_adams@Cieux.zzn.com , j_adams@walla.com ,
euroadams0@netscape.net


Our European Accredited Payment Agent will immediately commence the process
to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish
contact via E-mail within a
week of receiving this notice .Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.

Kindly remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all
correspondence.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of
proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to
maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

NOTE: That all winning must be claimed not later than 28th of MARCH 2006.
After this date all unclaimed
, funds will be included in the next stake. Anybody under the age of 18 is
automatically disqualified.

Finally, we ensure that you note every letters as clearly stated as we
would not be held responsible
should there be hitch in this transaction due laxity on your part. So you
are to expedite action, Failure to
do this we shall be compelled to lose your fund in other words, we shall
divert your fund to somewhere
else. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications;

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

Yours faithfully,

Estella Rogers.

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
Copyright © 1994-2006 The UK National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines


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