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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim 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.
  • +447024096733 (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.
  • fiduciary_jalsoncs@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "c_jalson" <c_jalson@terra.com.mx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 04:27:42 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS WINNER


WINNING NOTIFICATION
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
U.K National Lottery On-Line


WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#990) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on may 13th 2006.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names and e-mail addresses of distinguished professionals drawn from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted weekly to encourage prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.

The result of our computer draw (#988) selected your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 03-15-21-22-36-47(bonus no.27), 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 £250,000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLINGS) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £3 000,000.00 shared amongst the first Twelve (12) lucky winners in the 2nd category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.
NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £s PER WINNER TOTAL
Match 6 0 £5,753,161 £5,753,161
Match 5 plus bonus 12 £147,516 £1,770,192
Match 5 475 £2,329 £1,106,275
Match 4 27601 £88 £2,428,888
Match 3 547546 £10 £5,778,690
Totals 575634 £16,533,976

Lotto
Additional Information:
Jackpot winner(s) 0 Machine used for Draw OPAL Winners by Lucky Dip 220604 Ball set used 1. 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.

Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your winning and remittance to you after all statutory obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.

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 £250,000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLINGS) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you.

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:

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
MR.JALSON BLAIR
Email:fiduciary_jalsoncs@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone:+447024096733
At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Bertron Hill
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm

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