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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 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.
  • harriet_cane@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: james_blair@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:24:01 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT?=


FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
LONDON, UK.
PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF Nº: UK/2251256003/05
BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

CONGRATULATIONS!
We the Board and Management of British Lottery London, UK wishes to
inform you the results of theE-mail address ballot lottery
international program held on 19th day of June, 2006. It is yet to be claimed
and you
are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.This results is today
released to you and
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545-188
with Seria lnumber 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:11-13-26-34-44-48-02 which
subsequently
wonyou the lottery in the 2nd category .
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
$1,000,000.00(ONE MILLION USD) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a
total cash prize of $80.400,000.00 shared amongst the(17)lucky winners
in this category.All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted

from over100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place bianually.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep
your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed
and your
moneyRemitted to you. This is part of our security protocol toavoid double

claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programby some participants.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
Europe booklet representative office in UK as indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this, your $1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION USD) will be released
to you by any of our payment offices in (EUROPE or AFRICA).Endeavor toQuote

your reference/batch numbers in your correspondence with us and you are

advised not to expose your numbers to avoid double clamming and unwarranted

abuseof this program or you winnings will be void Please be warned. To file

foryour claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: Mrs LauraHooper via
this email address:(harriet_cane@yahoo.co.uk)WITH
YOUR DETAIL INFORMATION AS FOLLOWS
1. Full names
2. Residential address
3. Phone number
4. Age
5. Country
6. Sex
7. Occupation
8. Next of kin
9. Lucky numbers
10.Annual income
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications quote
your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Should there
be any change of addresses do inform our agent as soon as possible.ANYONE
BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/ HER CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER
OF THE PARENTS.
Once again congratulations from me and members of staff of THE BRITISH
LOTTERY

Sincerely Yours,
Mr Richard Llyods
International Promotion Manager.

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