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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")
• 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 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.
  • uknationalemaillottery1@yahoo.com.vn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: stanley clark <stanley_clark@yahoo.ca>
Date: 6 Aug 2006 01:47:09 +0300
Subject: UK LOTTERY

Content-Type: text/html

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




The National Email Lottery

P O Box 1010Liverpool L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM.



Customer Service: 580 NCA 85914

Ref: EAASL/941OYI/04

Batch: 074/05/ZY369



WINNING NOTIFICATION:



We happily announce to you the draw (#1012) of the UK NATIONAL

EMAIL LOTTERY,online Elitemate International program held on 26th January

2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188

with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers below:



Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category, i.e match 5

plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of

£509,757 in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.



This is from a total cash prize of £3,058,542 shared amongst the (6)

lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 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.



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 £509,757 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 him. For security

reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential

until 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 contact our fiduciary agent below:



Mr. Michael Woodgate

Mellen House

Unit 12 Llambed Business Park

Ceredigion, United Kingdom SA8 8LT

Phone: + (44) (44) 703-192-8603

Fax: + (44) 871 661 8757

Email: uknationalemaillottery1@yahoo.com.vn



Provide him with the information’s stated below:



1. Name:

2. Address:

3. Occupation:

4. Marital Status:

5. Age:

6. Country: (Present Location)

7. Nationality:

8. Telephone:

9. Fax number: (if any)

10. Email (optional)



Please be informed that to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,

please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with

our designated agents or us.



Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this programme

that has successfully won this competition.



Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.



Yours faithfully,

clark stanley,

Phone: + (234)8052383483

Fax: +(234)8052383483



Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL EMAIL LOTTERY

Elitemate International Program.

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