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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")
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447031949266 (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.
  • payoutukclaimsagentuk1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!ONLINE EMAIL LOTTERY WINNER <roseewood@web.de>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:12:15 +0200
Subject: WOW....YOUR EMAIL WON THE DRAWS OF THIS WEEK!!!!!


UK National Lottery,
2 Lansdowne Row,
Berkeley Square,
London, W1J 6HL,
United Kingdom. Ref : UK/776090X2/23
Batch: 013/05/8394369
Daily Draw Further results
http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnational.asp [http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/???H?]
Draw date:27/5/2006
WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Attn: Winner,

We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online UKNational Lottery program held on 27th of May.Your e-mail address won the lottery, with Serial number 368/02 drew the Winning numbers:05,08,1! 2,24,28,31 (bonus no.22), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 3 plus bonus. Yo! u have therefore been approve! d to claim total sum of $1,628,360.00 (One Million Six Hundred And Twenty Eight Thousand Three Hundred and Sixty Mil! lion Unites State Dollars) in ! cash credited to file.This is from a total cash prize of $20,350,000.00,shared amongst the Winners with different amount won in this category i.e Match 3 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 unions,associations, and corporatebodies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place ! weekly.Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet rep re! sentative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your $1,628,360.00 (One Million Six Hundred And Twenty Eight Thousand Three Hundred And Sixty Million Unites State Dollars) will ! be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our uropea n agent will immediately commence the process ! to facilitate the release of ou! r funds as soon as you contact her.Fo r security reasons, you are advis ed to keep your winning information con! fidential till your claim is pro! cessed and your money remitted to yo u in whatever manner you deem fit to claim
your prize.

Draw date:27/5/2006 Bonus

05 08 12 24 28 31 BONUS 22

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 ! for VALIDATION.

**************************************************
Barrister David Green.
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Deprtment,OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.
TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Tel Phone:+447031949266
E-mail :payoutukclaimsagentuk1@yahoo.co.uk
**************************************************

Endeavour to email him your full names,winning numbers,email address,telephone and fax numbers immediately.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY! .
Yours faithfully,
Rose Woo! d (Mrs)
Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
www.national-lottery.com [http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/???H?]
CONGRATULATION



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