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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • allensmith_fiduciaryagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "lottery.winners" <lottery.winners@bol.com.br>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:58:08 -0300
Subject: ticket number: 56475600545188



UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY Headquarters:
Customer Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
# 13 Beach Pkw,Princess Dolly Carlin Towers
Manchester,United Kingdom.

WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY International programs held on the (25th of june, 2006) in MANCHESTER, UK. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number: 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:19-6-26-17-35-7, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of U.500,000 ( Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of US $Five MILLION USD , shared among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies websites.
This promotion takes place annually, Please note that your lucky winning category # :two(2) falls within our West African booklet representative office in Africa from the five booklet reps.(london,sydney,seoul,lagos,athlanta) as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your US$500 000 ( Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our payment office 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 claims 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 by some unscrupulous elements.Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fudiciary agent in charge of category two(2) winners:
MR Allen Smith.
Email: allensmith_fiduciaryagent@yahoo.co.uk
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your full names,your country, your private Telephone and fax number, your reference/batch numbers etc in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.
Please do fill this form for more verifications
PERSONAL DATA
FULL NAMES: _________________________________
GENDER______________________________________
DATE OF BIRTH:________________________________
NATIONALITY: ________________________________
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: _______________________________________________
MARITAL STATUS: ______________________________
HOME ADDRESS: ________________________________
OFFICE ADDRESS: _______________________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER:_________________________________________________
FAX NUMBER: ____________________________________
OCCUPATION: ____________________________________
POSITION HELD: ___________________________________
TICKET NUMBER: __________________________________
EMAIL ADDRESS:__________________________________.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
Sincerely
. JOAN CLACK
UK Online Web Lottery Co-ordinator
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and take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners.
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