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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.

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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.
  • fred_brown_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • fb_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "online lottery co" <worldover_uklottery2006@narek.tv>
Reply-To: <fred_brown_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.ie>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:57:19 -0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:

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 the draw (#951) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International
program held on 9th March 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 02-19-28-33-44-49 (bonus no.21),
which subsequently won you the lottery JACKPOT category i.e match 6.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 500,000(FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of 2,856,300 shared amongst 4 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.
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 500,000 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND Dollas) would be
released
to you by any of our payment offices in UK.
Our European 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:
Name:FRED DAVIS
Email:fred_brown_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.ie
fb_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.ie

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

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Martina Andres
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Sweepstakes International Program



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