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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 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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +447031845166 (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.
  • uknational_06@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • agentjoshuawilliams@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?UK=20NATIONAL=20LOTTERY?= <uknational_06@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: agentjoshuawilliams@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:34:22 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONGRATULATION !!!


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: uknational_06@yahoo.co.uk











SUBJECT: WINNING NOTIFICATION 2006



We happily announce to you the draw (#994)

of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online sweepstakes

international program held on Monday

March 20th, 2006 Your e-mail address attached

to ticket number:56475600545 188

with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky

numbers:07-11-12-20-38-44-45(bonus no.05),

which subsequently won you the lottery in

the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.You

have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of

1,000 000 {One Million,Great Britain pounds sterlings}In cash

credited tofile KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of

10,000 000{Ten Million,Great Britain pounds sterlings}


shared amongst the {10} 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 union 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 { 10,000 000}

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 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.



I Wo\\\'n 1,000.000

Co-incidentally,Last Monday

I won the uk L\\\'ottery and w\\\'on just 1,000.000 On the same Monday

Steve Bruce ,Germany























To File for your claim, please contact our claims agent below.

***************************************************************

Name : MR joshua williams

E-mail: agentjoshuawilliams@yahoo.com

Tel: +44 703 184 5166,+44 703 187 1993

Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order

Department,TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM


***************************************************************



sincerely



GERRARD WOODGATE

CONTROLER







- UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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