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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.
  • +447031954260 (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.
  • overseaofficeclaim006@yahoo.com.ar (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Victoria Martins" <info_2006@o2.pl>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Victoria Martins" <overseaofficeclaim006@yahoo.com.ar>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 01:31:09 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
BRITISH WEB LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X)


The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1HX
England
(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369


Ref: WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
SweepstakesInternational program held on Wednesday 25th of July, 2006. It
is yet to beunclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards
this. Your e-mailaddress attached to ticket number: 56475300545 188 with
Serial number 5368/05 drewthe lucky numbers: 4, 5, 16, 19, 21, 49 (bonus
ball 20), which subsequently won youthe lottery in the 2nd category i.e
JACKPOT bonus. You have therefore been approvedto claim a total sum of
£9,476,995(NINE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE
POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize shared amongst the(7)lucky winners in this
categoryi.e JACKPOT bonus. All participants for the online version were
selected randomlyfrom World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that
are listed online. This ispart of the Country's Programme to fund for the
Olympic Games in 2012 The £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm)

The Olympic fund-raising games will include a TV draw The National Lottery
may haveseemed a relatively simple way of helping pay for the Olympics. The
Lottery mustraise £1.5bn over the next seven years to pay its share of the
public money going into the Olympics. A further £650m will be raised from
council tax in London and another £250m from the London Development Agency,
while similar sums will be raised from ticket sales, marketing, sponsorship
and the sale of television rights.

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 £684,008 will be released to you our payment office in UK. Our
European agentwill 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:

Name: Mark Pullen
Official Email: overseaofficeclaim006@yahoo.com.ar
Tell: +44-703 195 4260
Tell: +44-702 406 8669
Fax: +44-709 287 9035

Endeavour to email him your full names,winning numbers,email
address,telephone and fax numbers immediately. You can go to our online
result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize
breakdown:-
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/unclaimedPrizes.jsp

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Victoria Martins(Mrs)
Online coordinator
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

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