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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 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.
  • +448701299820 (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.
  • uknationalrep@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "U.K.- NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO" <award_dept@uknationallottery.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 03:52:48
Subject: U.K.- NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

U.K.- NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS,
28 TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.LONDON.
Ref: KPC/9080112061/06/TCA
Draw No: 06/1051

Attention;

We happily bring to your notice the results of the UK National Lottery
International programs held on the 18TH JANUARY, 2006 in London.
Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600558 696 with Serial
number: 5421/25 drew the lucky numbers: 2 - 3 - 7 - 24- 46 - 47 - 36,
which subsequently won you a prize in the 2ndcategory. You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £ 122,250.00 pounds
equivalent to US$ 216,565.88(Two Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Five
Hundred and
Sixty-five United States Dollars and Eighty-eight cent) in cash credited to
file KPC/9022823900/06/TCA.

This prize is from a total cash prize of £ 2,800,000 pounds shared
amongst the first Five (5) lucky winners in this grand category "B".
This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for British
Lottery. The estimated £ 2,800,000 pounds jackpot would be
the Fifth-biggest in U.K. history. The biggest was the USD 363 Million
jackpots that were shared between two winners in the January 2004 draw
of The Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.

All participants were selected randomly from various websites on 'The
World Wide Web, www' through a computer draw system and extracted
from
over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your prize remitted to
you as required in this grand category "B" terms and conditions of
claims.

This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by non winners. Please note that,
your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in London as indicated in our play coupon.
In view of this, your £ 122,250.00 pounds equivalent to US$ 216,565.88
(Two Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-five
United States Dollars
and Eighty-eight cent) prize would be transferred to your designated Bank
account. Our approved agent, The Trans Atlantic Company will
immediately commence
on processing your claims, to facilitate the release of our prize to you as
soon as you make
contact with them.

Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim, kindly contact
our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing your claims:
Name: Mr. Jeffrey Rice.E-mail: (uknationalrep@hotmail.co.uk)Foreign
Manager, Payment and
Release order Department, Trans Atlantic S.A London, United Kingdom.

Note that, all claims processes and clearance procedures must be duly
completed early to avoid impersonation and or double claiming.
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/draw numbers in any correspondences with us or our
designated
agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Faith Burke
Lottery Co-ordinator.

Tel:0044-7024-067-465
Tel:0044-7024-067-463
FAX NO/+44-870-129-9820

For: The UK National/ International Promotion's.

N.B please confirm your winning from our central lottery link
http://www.thelotter.com/Results_.asp?Lottery=24 with your
Draw number: 06/1051

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