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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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: "KEN COLE" <royalhouseuk22@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:44:41 +0000
Subject: PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT !!





FROM THE COORDINATOR, ROYAL HOUSE UK,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
ROYAL HOUSE UK,

Dear winner,

SECOND CATEGORY DRAWS.

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the Results of the second
category draws of royal house uk. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged winner Under the second category draw, this is part of our
Promotional draws. The draws were held on 9th Januay, 2006 and results are
being officially announced today.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot System drawn from
35,000 names/email addresses of Individuals and companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Europe, middle east, and Oceania as part Of our
international promotions program.

You/your Company, attached to ticket number 66-1-452, with serial number
52-27 drew the winning Numbers 10,18,25,55,50,(80) and consequently won in
The second category draws.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of £2,500,000:00m gbp (two
million, five hundred thousand Pounds), which is the winning payout for
second category
Winners. This is from the total prize money of £7,500,000:00 shared between
six (3) winners in the Category b.

Congratulations!!!

Your fund has been deposited with our international funds Transfer agent
trans world security uk and has been insured. In your best interest and also
to avoid mix up of numbers
And names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire Details of your
award strictly from public notice until the Process of transferring your
claims has been completed, and
Your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our Security protocol
to avoid double claims or unscrupulous Acts by participants/non-participants
of this program, We also wish to bring to your notice our end of-year 2006
Premium stakes draw where you stand a chance, winning up To £50m that will
be shared amongst 10 winners worldwide, We hope that with a part of your
prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due Processing and
remittance of your prize money to a Designated bank account of your choice;

Mr. Davis Rogers
Foreign department manager,
TRI-STAR SECURITY UK,
25 WOOD STREET,
WARWICKSHIRE CV37 6JF
LONDON UK.
FAX: +-4-4-7-0-9-2-8-7-2-6-6-9
TEL: +-4-4-7-0-4-0-1-1-7-5-4-1
E-mail: foreigndepartmentmanager@tri-starsecurityuk.net

You are advised to contact your claims agent by email Or fax within a week
of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant immediate
disqualification.

Note: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and
international lottery code number, remember To quote these numbers in every
one of your correspondence
with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: RHUK /05/Q21/06,
INTERNATION LOTTERY CODE NUMBER: RHG/ 004-1/A06.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and Thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE COORDINATOR,
ROYAL HOUSE UK.
GREATER LONDON, STRATFORD 8151XQ
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL/FAX: 447030403559


Note: any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will result
to disqualification. Please do not Reply to this mail. Contact your claims
agent Immediately. (terms and condition applies).


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