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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")
  • "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.
  • +447024093471 (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.
  • claimsagent_5@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <uknationalresult001@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 07:00:04 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER******


*[image: The National Lottery
Logo] *

*The National Lottery**
P O Box 1010*
*Liverpool** , L70 1NL*
*UNITED KINGDOM** **
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369*
* ** [image: U.K National Lottery On-Line]*
* WINNING NOTIFICATION:*
*We happily announce to you the draw (#1059) of the UK NATIONAL**
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Wednesday 3rd May,
2006. *
*Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a
pool of over 25,000 names and e-mail addresses of distinguished
professionals drawn from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand,
Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our
international promotions programme conducted weekly to encourage prospective
overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part
in our subsequent lottery jackpots. *
*The result of our computer draw (#988) selected your e-mail address
attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew
the lucky numbers: 05-11-12-16-17-45(bonus no.42), which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category (match 5 plus Bonus ). *
*You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of * *£250,132(TWO
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO POUNDS STERLINGS) in
cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
* *£750,396 shared amongst the Three(3) lucky winners in the 2nd category.*



*NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £ s PER WINNER TOTAL *

Match
6 3
£812,931 £2,438,793 **
* *
**
*Match 5 plus bonus 3
£250,132 £750,396*
* *
**
**
* Match
5 353
£1,328 £468,784 *
**
* *
***Match 4
21673 £47 £1,018,631*
**
**
*Match 3
405126 £10 £4,051,260
*
**
**
*Totals 427158
£8,727,864
*
* **[image: Lotto]*
*Additional Information:*
*Jackpot winner(s) 3*
*Machine used for Draw OPAL*
*****Winners by Lucky Dip ;114543*
***Ball set used 8*
*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. *
*Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claims. To
begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our
licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lottery Winners within a
period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your
winning and remittance to you after all statutory obligations have been
satisfactorily dispensed with. *
*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 £250,132(TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED
AND THIRTY-TWO POUNDS STERLINGS) would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe. *
*Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period
may be forfeited to the pool without further notice. *
*Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds to you. *
*For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim 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:*
*Overseas Claims Unit**
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
MR.TONY WRIGHT *
*Emails: claimsagent_5@myway.com*
*phone: +447024093471*
***fax:+447092878645*
*****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*
*CONGRATULATIONS!!!*
*At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours, *
*Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, *
*Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm. *
[image: The National Lottery Logo]



*VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM*
[image: The National Lottery Logo]



*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 CLAIMS. AND WE WOULD LIKE TO
TELL YOU THAT YOUR CLAIMS WAS PICKED BY RANDOM SEARCH OF EMAILS AND YOU WERE
FIXED AT THE DRAW WHICH YOU CAME OUT SUCESSFULLY THAT IS WHY YOU WERE NOTED
SO PLEASE FILL OUT THE INFORMATION BELOW SO THAT WE PROCEED WITH YOUR
CLAIMS.
**
1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________

2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

____________________________________________

3.SEX:_______________

4.AGE:________


5MARITAL STATUS:___________________

6.OCCUPATION:________________________

7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________

8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________**

9.BATCH NUMBER:____________________ B. REF NUMBER:______________

10.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________*
*11.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________

___________________________________________


12. COUNTRY________________________________ *

*Upon receipt of the duly requested data, I will send you the contact
information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the
release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

Warm Regards,
*
**
*TONY WRIGHT(MR)
*
*[image: You must be 16 or over to play or claim a prize] *
[image: The National Lottery Logo]

*NB.
1) You have recieved this email Because your email address was included in
our Lottery database.if you are not interested in claiming your winning,
please send us a blank email with the subject "Disclaimer";
*
*2) Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winner(s) will result
to
disqualification.*
*

Please be Warned!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be
using National Lottery addresses, but are not from The National
Lottery.Ignore any such mail
*

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