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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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")
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • netzene@netzero.net
  • rickybensonf@netzero.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uknetlotto@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:07:27 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LOTTERY=20WINNER?=

UK National Lottery,
2 Lansdowne Row,
Berkeley Square,
London, W1J 6H,
United Kingdom

Daily Draw Further results

Winning Date: 15/07/2006.

http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnationalhistorical.asp

Ref: UK/776090X2/23
Batch: 013/05/8394369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
UK National Lottery program held on 15th July 2006. Your e-mail address
attached to Ticket Number: 8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02 drew
the Winning Numbers:03,15,21,22,36,47,27 (bonus no.13), which subsequently
won you the lotteries in the 2nd category i.e match 3 plus
bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $500.000.00 (Five
Hundred Thousand Unites State Dollars) in cash credited to file. This is
from a total cash prize of $10,350,000.00, shared amongst the Winners with
different amount won in this category i.e. Match 3 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.


Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative
Office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Unites State Dollars) will be released
to you by any of our payment offices in your country.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact her 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 for VALIDATION.



***********************************************************
Barrister David Green.
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Department, OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.
TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM ASIA ZONE CHINA
Tel Phone:+8613751882824
E-mail :netzene@netzero.net
Email :rickybensonf@netzero.net

***********************************************************

Endeavour to email him your full names, winning numbers, email address,
telephone and fax numbers immediately.


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



Yours faithfully,
Betty Clay (Mrs)
Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
www.national-lottery.com

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam