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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "you are advice to send" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • 00447024066035

Fraud email example:

From: williams patrick <uklotto_willpat@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:26:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: IT IS NOT A SCAM!!! FILL AND SEND BACK!!!


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIMS AGENT





Dear Madras,

We acknowledge the receipt of your mail. First and foremost Congratulation on your winning.This programmed was design to encourage theuse of the Internet in developing nations but presently we are for nowinvolving all the continents in the world. Winners are normally pick from the Internet depending on the usage and also your luck is based on if you are on the Internet when our computer balloting is taking place.The majorcomputer companies in the world contributed to this programmed with little contribution from the United Nations. Also this programmed is cover and approved by the law of World lottery Association(WLA) and also of various countries of the European Union.We wish to inform you that you are urgently required to forward your details . This will enable our account department to begin with the processing of your fund.Hence, you are advice to send your full name, contact address details, phone
and fax number, age, sex, profession,nationality,postal address.Subject upon your receipt to this mail, we will begin the processing and Zoning of your fund through any of our payment offices spread across the continents.



FIRST NAME........................ LAST
NAME..........................
CONTACT ADDRESS...................................................
TELEPHONE NUMBER.....................FAXES NUMBER.....................
AGE..................... GENDER................ MARIATAL
STATUS.......................NATIONALITY.........................
OCCUPATION........................................................
REF NUMBER.........................................................
SERIAL NUMBER........................................................
LUCKY/TICKET NUMBER.........................................................
NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF
KIN......................................................

YOUR FAITHFULLY,
MR WILLIAMS PATRICK
CLAIM AGENT
Tel:
0044-702-406-6035
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