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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:

• 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.
  • +447040130642 (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.
  • email-claimagent1018@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: UK ONLINE LOTTERY <uknlresult@atmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:50:41 -0300
Subject: <<<WINNING NOTIFICATION>>>CONGRATULATION!!!

LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION (FINAL NOTICE)
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
EUROPEAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
05.08.2006

Greetings to you,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of our computer random selection for the of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on AUGUST 5th 2006.Your email address,attached to ticket number 205-11465886-629, with serial number 3772-99 drew the lucky
numbers 7-14-17-23-31-44,and consequently won the lotto in the "A" category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £750,000.00 (seven hundred & Fifty Thousand Pounds sterling) in cash credited to file REF NO:Ref.NoEGS/2251256003/02 The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following:

Ref Number: NoEGS/2251256003/02
Batch Number: 14/0017/1PD
Ticket Number: 205-11465886-629

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of £750,000.00 (seven hundred & Fifty Thousand Pounds sterling}each from the total payout.Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transfered to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,verifications, validations and satisfactory report.To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims 
agent for category.

"A"Winners with the informatiom below: Your allocated claim agent details  are follows,And also provide with your details for verification process.

FIDUCIARY AGENT
OVER SEAS CLAIM UNIT
MR. Ellis Morris
TEL: +44 704 013 0642
EMAIL-claimagent1018@myway.com

YOUR DETAILS
1.Name:..............................
2.Address:...........................
3.Marital Status:....................
4.Occupation:........................
5.Age:...............................
6.Sex:...............................
7.Nationality:.......................
8.Country Of Residence:..............
9.Telephone Number:..................
10.Fax Number:.......................

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than two weeks.After this date all funds will be returned to the LOTTERY TREASURY as unclaimed lottery prize.Remember to quote your reference number and your Batch numbers in every correspondence with your claim agent.Please note that 
your claims agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of your prize funds into your
designated bank account or any means of payment suitable to you.

Furthermore, should there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possibe .Anybody under the age of 18 and member of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Congratulations once again while urging you to contact your claim agent as soon as possible.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. John Moore (Announcer/Lottery Coordinator).
UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY PROMOTION.

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

 

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