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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 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.
  • +447011120263 (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.
  • infopowell_fiducairyagent2@yahoo.co.uk
  • infopowell_fiduciaryagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uklottery8@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:44:22 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
+447011120263
+447011120262
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today 1st of
July, 2006 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME
held on Saturday the 1st of July, 2006. Your e-mail address
attached to
ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02
drew the
lucky numbers:(13)-(08)-(14)-(19)-(28)-(29) (48) bonus # (06)
which
subsequently won you the lottery in the second category.You
have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £81,631(Eighty-
one
thousand, six hundred and thirty-one pound Sterling's) in cash
credited
to KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£1,817,694
shared amongst the twenty-one (21) lucky winners in this
category.

This year's Lottery Program Jackpot is the 5th largest
ever in the
history of Europe Sweepstakes. All participants for the
online version
were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites
through computer draw
system and extracted from over 125,000 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
playcoupon. In view of this, your £81,631
(Eighty-one thousand, six
hundred and thirty-one pound Sterling's)
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 them. 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 fill
the claims form below and
contact our fiduciary agent with your
complected forms with the below
email address.

AGENT: WILLIAMS POWELL
Email:infopowell_fiducairyagent2@yahoo.co.uk

:infopowell_fiduciaryagent@yahoo.co.uk
(Form HLP)
REFERENCE
NUMBER: UK/9420X2/68
FULL
NAME...............................................
AMOUNT
WON..........................................
FULL
ADDRESS:...........................................
SEX:................................
AGE..............................
OCCUPATION.......................
TEL.......................
FAX................ (If any)
COUNTRY................................
E-
MAIL................................

HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR
LICENSE.............(identification on delivery)

INDICATE PREFERRED
MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION:
(A) CHEQUE...................................

(B) BANK TRANSFER.........................................

DATE..............................................

Our European agent
will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of
your funds as soon as you contact them with your
completed form.


Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.

Yours Truly,
Sir. Richard K. Lloyd.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo
Programme).

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