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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.
  • webnotification02@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK LOTTERY OFFICE" <webnotice01@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:13:06 +0100
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD
HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD. W6
8JB
UNITED KINGDOM.
(Customer Services)
REFERENCE NUMBER:
UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458


                                        WINNING NOTIFICATION



We happily announce to you the Draw 1067 of
the NATIONAL lOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International
program held
on
19th of August 2006. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number: 023-
1111-790-458 with Serial number 5073-12 drew the
lucky numbers:05- 11-
12-16-17-45-42 ,and a bonus number of 24 this lucky
number subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category.(bonus no. 42)
.

You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
$480,152
{Four hundred
and eigthy thousand, one hundred and fifty two
dollars}
in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a
total cash
prize of
$4,321,368 shared amongst the (9) lucky winners in
this
category i.e
Match 5 plus bonus.


This year's Lottery Program Jackpot is the 5th
largest ever in the history of Europe Sweepstakes.
Allparticipants 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 playcoupon. In
view of this, your
$4,321,368 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 till 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 touble claiming
and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for
your claim, please
contact our fiduciary

FIDUCIARY AGENT:
Michael Taylor(Mr)
Email:webnotification02@yahoo.co.uk


Fill to the verificaton form attached
to this notification,send a
copyof this verification form to our
fiduciary agent Michael Taylor
(Form
HLP)

REFERENCE NUMBER: Ref:
UK/9420X2/68
BATCH NO:
074/05/ZY369

FULL
NAME...............................................
WINNING E-
MAIL
ADDRESS..................................
FULL
ADDRESS:...........................................
SEX:................................
AGE...................................
OCCUPATION.............................
TEL.......................
MOBILE................
COUNTRY................................



___________________________

Date.
Regards,
Richard Lloyds
Online Co-ordinator.

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