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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")
  • "claims 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.
  • patentandtrademark@web2mail.com
  • patent_trademark_uk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Patent And TradeMarks (Uk) Limited" <patenttrademarks@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: "Patent And TradeMarks (Uk) Limited" <patentandtrademark@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 02:11:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: *** FINAL NOTIFICATION!!! ***


EURO MILLIONS PROMO/PRIZE: DEPARMENT
AN AFFILIATE OF SWISSLOS. INTERNATIONAL CH PROMO/PRIZE
THAMES TOWER, BLACK’S ROAD, HAMMERSMITH, LONDON W6 9EL, UK
********************************************************
www.lotto.ie <http://www.lotto.ie/>
REFERENCE NUMBER: E-A-L6137-01-96
BATCH NUMBER: 241643-PTM
Ticket Code number: 863140-4-7695
Serial number: 39314-01-06

*******************************************
ATTN: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of Monday May 8, 2006 of Winners of the EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY PROMO held on Friday 28 of April 2006.Your email address, attached to Ticket number 863140-4-7695, with Serial number 39314-01-06 won in the 5+1 star computer Balloting Category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of €1,737,262 euro (One million, Seven hundred and Thirty seven thousand, Two hundred and Sixty Two Euro) in cash credited to file REF NO.REF: PTM 53316814.
All selected persons were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form 25,000 names from the middle east, Africa, Canada, Europe, North America and Oceania as part our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Please note that you’re lucky winning number falls within our Amsterdam booklet representative Office in Netherlands as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your (€1,737,262 euro (One million, Seven hundred and Thirty seven thousand, Two hundred and Sixty Two Euro) would be released to you physically by our affiliate offshore Bank. Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope that with a part of your prize, that you will participate in our May high stakes ¤1.1 billion International Lottery.
Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims.
***************************************************
AGENCY: Patent & Trademark (UK) Limited
NAME; Mr. Richard Hooper
E-mail: patentandtrademark@web2mail.com
patent_trademark_uk@yahoo.co.uk
PHONE; + 44 (703) 196 8010
Fax + 44 (870) 068 5750
*********************************
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later than 30 days from date of receipt of this notice, all funds will be forfeited and returned as unclaimed winnings and included in the next sweepstake. Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote personal and winning numbers in all correspondence with us.
All correspondences MUST be sent to: either patentandtrademark@web2mail.com or
patent_trademark_uk@yahoo.co.uk
NOTE: To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in every one of your correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: E-A-L6137-01-96
BATCH NUMBER: 241643-PTM
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you Sincerely,
Mrs. Susan Hendricks
Managing Director
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Do not reply to this mail if you are below 18 years of age
. Contact your claims agent immediately through the contact information above.
Important- The Information transmitted in this e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited unless otherwise stipulated. If you receive this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and delete the material concerning Patent And Trademarks, from the computer

This email may contain confidential and/or privileged information intended solely for the use of the Intended Individual or entity recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender by telephone or return email with the words “DELECT OR REMOVE” on the subject bar, and delete the material from your computer.

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