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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")
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • +447031903806 (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.
  • contact_claimagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Online Free Offer" <ukonlinelottery8@johnmellencamp.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:48:06 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU HAVE WON 1MILLION GBP

CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU HAVE WON 1MILLION GBP

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online
Sweepstakes International program held on 2nd of June 2006. It is yet
to be unclaimed and you
are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02
drew the lucky numbers:4-6-9-12-15-40 (bonus no.25), which subsequently
won you the lottery in
the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000 (One
million pounds
sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a
total cash prize of 5,000,000
shared amongst the(5)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 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
corporate bodies that are
listed online. 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 1,000,000(One million
pounds sterling)will be released to you by any of our payment offices
in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your
funds as soon as you contact her.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:

Mr. Melvin John
Alpha Consultants Lawfirm & Schmidtz Associates
(Solicitors Advocates & Arbitrators)
TEL: +447031903806

Official E-mail: contact_claimagent@yahoo.co.uk
Fudiciary Agent.

Details Of Beneficiary
Name(Surname First):..............................................

Address:..............................

Country:...............................
Telephone:..............................

Gender:..............................

Marital Status:....................
Age:.....................................

Occupation:..........................

Annual Income:.....................


Email Address:.......................

INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTIONS :
(A) COURIER
(B) DRAFT
(C) TRANSFER
(D) CHEQUE
IF BY TRANSFER
(Details of the account where you want your funds transferred):
........................................................
...........................................................
...............................................

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/ INDIVIDUAL:

..................................................
..........................................................
........................................................

_______________ _________________

Date. Signature.




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

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.


Yours faithfully,
Peter Mike(Mr)
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