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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.
  • agent_john10@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard K. Lloyd." <w_vd10@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:23:14 +0100 (BST)
Subject: You Won!!!


UK National Lotto #1096 (Single Rollover Draw) UK Lottery E-mail Scams Warning Winning numbers drawn at 8.10pm BST on Saturday 24th June 2006:

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Springfield, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM.
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1096) of the UNITED KINGDOM
NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday
24th June 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 9-14-21-23-39-44-(19 BONUS
N0.), 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 £1,463,870
(One Million Four hundred And Sixty Three thousand Eight hundred And
Seventy pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is
from a total cash prize of £4,757,608 shared amongst the first Four (4)
lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

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. 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
£1,463,870 (One Million Four hundred And Sixty Three thousand Eight hundred And
Seventy pounds sterling) 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 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, Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
Mr. John Moore
Email: (agent_john10@yahoo.co.uk)
You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your
winnings and also get a prize breakdown: -
http://lottery.merseyworld.com/archive/Lott1096.html

Good luck from me and members of staff of the UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL
LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.




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