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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:
  • "claim 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.
  • +447024073809 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • uklottolottery_iwon@yahoo.com
  • globalhandsinc_agents@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <caroljones_agentuk@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:40:34 -0800
Subject: UK LOTTERY WINNER'S NOTIFICATION


The U.K International Lottery
UK HEAD OFFICE
PDV Ltd Monmouth
House 40 Artillery
Lane London E1 7LS
Attention: Lucky Winner,
Batch No: 074/05/27369
Ref No: UK/9420x/68

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are happy to inform you that you are one of the lucky winners of the UK National Lotto Draw date: wednesday,15th february 2006:The UK NATIONAL LOTTO DRAW, is played via the internet which sole aim is to reduce poverty to a bearable minimum globally.


Your e-mail address which has the UK lotto ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 were winning numbers: Ref . 07 14 29 37 41 45 (04). Consequently you have won the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 6 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £ 300.000.00 in cash credited to file UK/9420X/68.
This is from a total cash prize of £ 900,000.00 shared amongst the first three (3) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 6 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World -Wide Websites through internet draw system and involving over 200,000 associations and corporate bodies that are enlisted online. Your winning falls in African Asian

This lottery takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African Asian office as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £300.000.00. Would be paid to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our Claim agent zoned for paying centre will immediately commence the process of facilitating the payment of your prize as soon as you
Contact the claim agent.

For security reasons, you are advised to confidentially keep your winning information till your claim is processed and your prize is paid to you in which ever way that will be convenient to you. This is part of our precautionary measures to avoid double claim and undue abuse of this programme. Please be warned.


To process your claim, please fill the Winning Verification & Claim Form attached to this email .Send to our claiming office via this email address below:

Financial / Payment Center.
Uk lotto lottery Limited
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1HX England E-
Contacts Person: Mr. Tonny Cleff
Email Address: uklottolottery_iwon@yahoo.com <http://uk.f273.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=globalhandsinc_agents@yahoo.com>
Tel: +447024073809


ATTN: ONCE AGAIN THE WHOLE OF THE NATIONAL UK LOTTERY STAFFS ARE CONGRATULATING YOU, SO PLEASE GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS TO ENABLE US FILE YOUR CLIAMS.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam