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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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 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.
  • ukpaymentcenteroffice02@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uk national lottery <ukpaymentcenteroffice02@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:40:58 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION{FINAL NOTIFICATION}!!!



The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
NOTIFICATION:

Dear sir/madam,

We happily announce
to you the draw (#996) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes
International program held 22nd August,2006.
Your e-
mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serialnumber 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:2 - 13 - 23 -35 -38 Bonus
Ball [42] 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 £250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
sterlings) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a
total cash prize of £1,000,000 shared amongst the first
four (4)
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
100,000unions,
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
£250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand
pounds
sterlings) 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 your claim 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.
To file
for your
claim, please contact our
claims agent:
Overseas Claims Unit
United
Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary

Mr.mark brown
Email:ukpaymentcenteroffice02@yahoo.co.uk


FILL
AND RETURN
TO
THE
NATIONAL LOTTERY AGENT

NAME.................

COMPANY
NAME........

ADDRESS............

SEX..................

OCCUPATION..............

AGE................

TEL..............
FAX................


Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,

Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days a
week.

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