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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:
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Terry Trevor" <amextrustagency03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: amextrustagency@uk2.net
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:31:33 +0000
Subject: WINNERS NOTIFICATION

WINNERS NOTIFICATION:

LOTERIA CL
C Don Jaime I nº11 2º
50.003 Zaragoza
Website: http://www.loteria.cl

Date: 10.08.06

WINNING NOTICE

We gladly wish to inform you of the International
draws of the Kino Loterial Draw held on the 26th of
May 2006 You along with 10 others were selected
winners under draws A30 in our 1st Bi annual program
which feature’s yearly.

However your e-mail address attached to ticket number
45-02-93-61 with serial numbers 738-JY drew the lucky
numbers 5-33-37-38-40-49 and consequently won the
lottery in the 2nd Category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Please be informed that all participants in this
lottery program have been selected randomly through a
computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000
companies and 50,000,000 individual e-mail addresses.
Your funds are now deposited with a Finance and
Security House who act as our official agents to
facilitate the payment of claims to winners.
However due to a possible mix up of some numbers and
names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from
public notice until your claim has been processed and
your money remitted. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts
by participants of this program. To begin your claim,
please contact the claims agent the sole
representative assigned with the verification of any
emergent winner. Therefore all protocols laid
down by them (the finance firm) must be followed to
facilitate your claims:

CONTACT: Mr. TERRY TREVOR
CLIENT SERVICE MANAGER,
AMMEX TRUST AGENCY
London, U. K.
Email: (amextrustagency@uk2.net)

Also find all other relevant winning lottery
Information below:

Ref No: DKL/9318046 Batch: 52630/729//06
Draw No: DKL-4/028

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
out of US$1,400,000.00 (One Million, Four Hundred
Thousand Dollars only) in cash credited to
file with Ref No: DKL/5935. For due processing and
remittance of your prize money, remember that you must
contact your claim agent not later than
28th October, 2006. After this date, all funds will be
returned as unclaimed.

NOTE:
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to Quote your reference
and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent. Furthermore, should
there be any change of your address, do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you
for being part of our Promotions program.

Sincerely,

Franklin Chacon.
The Promotions Manager

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to Disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail. Contact your claim agent. Also you
are automatically disqualified if you are below 18
years of age.

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