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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fudiciary" (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 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.
  • +447024095614 (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.
  • claim_fudiciaryageent@skim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?us-ascii?Q?luisa=20adams=20free=5Faward?= <freeaward@seznam.cz>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:23:43 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?YOUR=20WINNING=20NOTIFICATION=21=21=21?=


FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR,
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
BRITISH LOTTERY
14 FRATON ROAD
FULHAM, LONDON
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 12/25/0034



WINNING NOTIFICATION
Dear Winner:
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the
last final annual draw of our Lottery International
Programs. your email with serial number
5388/02 and ticket number564 75600545 188 hit the jackpot .

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
1,000,000.00 (One Million Great British Pounds, ) in cash
credited to file KPC/9080118308/02/SHYN. This is from a total cash
prize of 20 Million pounds shared among the first twenty (20) lucky
winners in this categorya.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the
internet. No tickets were sold.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!.
Your prize award has been
insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to
you upon meeting our requirements, statutory
obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.

In the 2nd category.you are advised to keep this notice to yourself
because of individuals who may divert your money to theirs .
To file in for the processing of your prize
winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified
and Accredited claims agent for category "A" winners
with the information below:
*************************************
NAME:MARINE BRUCE
EMAIL:claim_fudiciaryageent@skim.com
TEL:+447024095614
FAX:+447093874060
*************************************
Congratulations once more and thanks for being part of our promotional
programme

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.luisa adams
Lottery Coordinator.

The Lottery Company and lottery.co.uk is in no way affiliated with,
associated with or approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The
National Lottery Commission.
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Material Copyright &copy; 2006 The Lottery Co. Ltd.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam