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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:
  • "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.
  • agenthoward_uklotto@boxbg.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK LOTTERY GAMES <associateschambers@masini.ro>
Reply-To: "UK LOTTERY GAMES" <fiduagenthoward_uklottery@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:52:10 EEST
Subject: YOU HAVE WON X2.500,000(GBP)!!

YOU HAVE WON £2.500,000(GBP)!!

FREE AWARD DEPT.
16 Broad Street,
Woolich, Middle Essex
United Kingdom
London.
www.freelotto.com
Ref:UK/9420X2/66
Batch: 12/25/0304

WINNING NOTIFICATION/YOU ARE A WINNER

The United K ingdom Free Lottery board wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
Great Britain held on 21th of May 2006.Your email account have been
picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of £2,500,000(Two Million Five
Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file REF NO.
UK/9420X2/66. This is from total prize money of GBP £10,000,000 shared among the FOUR (4) international winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over
100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that
are listed online. This promotion is this year's United Kingdom Free
Lottery New Year bonanza. This online email ballot lottery is approved
by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the International
Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

All winning must be claim ed not later than 14 working days from this
notification.After this time all unclaimed funds will be retured to
European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your
reference number in all correspondence.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part
of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program.

To begin your claim, please contact your claim`s agent:

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Mr Victor Howard
Email:agenthoward_uklotto@boxbg.com
Email:fiduagenthoward_uklottery@msn.com
Tel: 447024094016
447024072160

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money.
Note below your winning details:

Ticket #: 56475600545 188
Serial #: 5368/02
Lucky #: 05 21 23 28 40 48 26 Bonus-17
File REF #: UK/9420X2/66
BATCH #: 12/25/0304

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
Mrs Ann Hatrop
Online Coordinator,
FREE AWARD GROUP.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will
result to disqualification.

NOTE: Do not reply this mail. You are to contact your claims officer
immediately. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please remember to quote your reference number in every one of your
correspondences.

*IMPORTANT* FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:

Your application for the claim of lottery winning prize will be duly
processed and settlement made upon certification.

Hence,carefully fill in the appropriate information in the space
provided below for record purposes to facilitate our immediate
commencement of your claims process. The completed claims form should
be sent to your claims agent for immediate commencement of prize
remittance.

*Name of Beneficiary:
*Address:
*City/State:
*Nationality:
*Sex:
*Email Address:
*Tel:
*Occupation:
*Next of Kin:
*Age:
*AMOUNT WON:
*In Figures:
*In Words:
*Lucky Nos:
*Ticket No:

OFFICE USE ONLY
Verified by:________________

Confirmed by: ________________

CLAIMS AGENT SIGNATURE:________________

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE FREE LOTTERY BOARD




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