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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 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.
  • fiduciaryuklotto@jumpy.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "monica craig" <lottery9uk@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:25:10 -0500
Subject: MONICA

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you that you are a winner of
the draw (#1066) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday
11th of March, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:04-09-13-29-31-36
(bonus no.16), which subsequently won you the lottery
in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £540,000(Five hundred and Fourty thousand
pounds ) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a
total cash prize of £2,700,000 shared amongst the (5)
lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
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.
This promotion takes place weekly. 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
£540,000(Five hundred and fourty thousand
pounds ) would be
released to you by any of our affiliated
courier/security companies. Our fiduciary agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims is processed
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,with your full
name,address and draw number which is (#1066}

Mr. Brian Hunt
Email: fiduciaryuklotto@jumpy.it

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your
winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
MONICA CRAIG.
Online coordinator

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