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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")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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.
  • +447024075148 (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.
  • omegaconsult2@mixmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Kelvin Dickson" <uknationlottery@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: omegaconsult2@mixmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:00:44 +0200
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref Number: UK/9420X2/70
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY345
FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

UK LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION :
We are pleased to notify you of the draw (#1032) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held on Saturday 15th July
2006 Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a
pool of over 25,000 names 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
twice in a week to encourage prospective overseas entries.
The internet emailing idea was used, since most people are not able to purchase
tickets and play outside the UK. We hope with part of your prize awards, you
will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.
The result of our computer draw (#1032) selected your name and email
address attached to e-ticket number: 56475612545 187 with Serial number 5368/03
drew the lucky numbers: 02-03-13-16-18-20 (Bonus number 23) which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 6. You have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of £500,000,00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling)
in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/07.This is from a total cash prize of
£3,000,000.00 (Three Million Pounds Sterling), shared between you and 5 other
winners in this category i.e. Match 6.
Your prize award has been insured in your email 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 13 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your
winning and remittance to your designated bank account 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 £500,000
(Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) 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 as soon as you make contact with them.
You may wish to establish contact via e-mail with the particulars
presented below sending the batch and reference numbers and these
informations below for quick verifications and release of funds,
between the hours of 8.00am - 6.00pm on Monday to fridaythrough
Omega Consult Overseas Claims United United Kingdom Lottery
Fiduciary Agent;

Contact Person : Mr Kelvin Dickson
Tel : +447024075148
Fax : +447005968311
Email :omegaconsult2@mixmail.com
For confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of
proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further
advised to maintain the highest level of confidentiality
until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Any lottery double claim detected by our monitoring
committee will lead to the Uk national lottery cancelling
the winnings. making a loss for both the real winner,
and the fake (intended) claimer.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Bertron Hill
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
MRS, SUSAN GREEN.
NOTE: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BUT TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT ONLY.

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