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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")
• 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.
  • casinolotteryinc@casinomail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sky News" <newsreport1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:45:02 +0100
Subject: Sky News: Congratulations, You have won ! ! ! ! ! ! !


* <http://www.casino.com/>*
*WINNING NOTIFICATION*
**
We happily announce to you the draw (Draw #06/1084) of the CASINO LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International Program held on 5th July, 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:

[image: Ball 3][image: Ball 15][image: Ball 21][image: Ball 22][image: Ball
36] [image: Ball 47] [image: Bonus Ball 27]Bonus Ball
<http://www.casino.com/click/cc.asp?bannerID=6362&bannerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcrbanner%2Ecasinopays%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fredir%2Ecgi%3Fid%3DN%26member%3Dcascom1%26profile%3D7772234cr%26lang%3D&isoCode=EN>

Which subsequently won you one of the lucky dip prizes. You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £4,095,381.00 (FOUR MILLION AND NINETY
FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE BRITISH POUNDS ) in cash credited
to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£8,190,762.00 (EIGHT
MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO BRITISH
POUNDS) shared among the two{2} winners in this category.


<http://www.casino.com/click/cc.asp?bannerID=6543&bannerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eintercasino%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ephp3%3F80900&isoCode=EN>

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web through a
computer draw system and extracted from over 1,000,000 unions,
associations,and corporate bodies that are listed online.

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 £4,095,381.00 (FOUR MILLION AND NINETY FIVE THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE BRITISH POUNDS) would 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 him. *
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 via email:

Mr. PHILIP COLEMAN
Claims Department
The UKCL Foundation
Email: casinolotteryinc@casinomail.com
Tel: + (44) 702 403 3884
+ (44) 702 409 1057

with the following vital information:
Full Name:..........................
Full Address:.......................
Nationality:........................
Occupation:.......................
Age:....................................
Sex:........................................
Marital status:..........................
Winning numbers:......................
Batch number:.............................
Amount won:.............................
Email address:.................................
Phone number{land/mobile}:.........

so that he can commence the process of your funds remittance.


Once again congratulations from the entire staff of the CASINO LOTTERY.

Warm regards,

DR. MRS KATE WILLIAMS. <http://blackjack.casino.com/>
Online Coordinator for the CASINO LOTTERY.
www.casino.com**

* * <http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Logo.html>* *
* CASINO LOTTERY INC CASINO LOTTERY INC *

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COPYRIGHT (c) 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED

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