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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:
  • "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.
  • agentelizabethformverificationce@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <winner@uknationallottoonline.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:12:26 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: OFFICIAL WINNER NOTIFICATION ***CONGRATULATIONS***


THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD.
W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM.
.............................................................
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
OUR REF: 27349/46
.............................................................
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today 24rd of August,2006 of winners
of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME held on Saturday the 23th of August, 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 023-1111-790-458 with Serial number 5073-12
drew the lucky numbers:43-10-42-37-10, and a bonus number of 43 which subsequently won you
the lottery in the secondcategory.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£552,000,00 (Five hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds sterling)in cash credited to
file XYL/26510460037/04
This is from a total cash prize of £5,520,000 shared amongst the first thirteen(10) lucky
winners in this category. This year's Lottery Program Jackpot is the 5th largest ever in the
history of Europe Sweepstakes. All participants for the online version were selected randomly
from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 125,000 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 £552,000 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 her. 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 double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. Please be warned.To file for your claim,
please contact our fiduciary agent
Contact Name: Elizabeth Walter(Mrs)
Email: agentelizabethformverificationce@yahoo.com
You are required to provide her with the information below for verification purposes:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Ticket Number
(above):
12.Reference Number
(above):
13.Batch Number(above):
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.
Yours Truly,
Richard Lloyd
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).

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