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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447040122180 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • claimsagent.eric@yahoo.co.uk
  • claimsagent22_britishlottery@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ZONAL CO-ORDINATOR <brlnotice10@lottowinners.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:02:55 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: **CONGRATULATIONS** YOUR EMAIL HAS WON**



UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
THE MARINA OFFICES,
ST PETERS YATCH BASIN,
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
NE6 1HX,ENGLAND.

WINNING NOTICE : AWARD FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNERS.

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded UK NATIONAL LOTTERY International Lottery Programme held on Wednesday the 23rd of August,2006.

The Online Cyber Lottery Draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. NO TICKETS WERE SOLD.

After the automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of seven(7) winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:

REF No: UKL/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 56475600545 188
SERIAL No: 5368/02
LUCKY Nos: 2, 8, 11, 12, 22, 26 (Bonus Ball 46 )

You as well as the other six lucky winners in this category are therefore to receive a cash prize of 864,008.00 ( Eight Hundred and Sixty -Four Thousand, and Eight British Pounds Sterlings) each from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,PLEASE CONTACT THE ACCREDITTED CLAIMS AGENT:

AGENT NAME: SIR ERIC SVENSSON
CONTACT EMAILS:
claimsagent.eric@yahoo.co.uk ;
claimsagent22_britishlottery@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: +44-7040122180

NOTE: You are to forward the following information to the claims agent:

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIMS APPLICATION FORM-C
======================================================================
WINNING EMAIL...............................NAME OF WINNER.................................................................
CURRENTADDRESS........................................................
COUNTRY/NATIONALITY.................................AGE.............. SEX...................................
MARITAL STATUS..............................OCCUPATION........................
TEL.....................FAX (if any)....................
AMOUNT WON:
IN FIGURES------------------------------------------------------------
IN WORDS--------------------------------------------------------------
LUCKY NOS.-----------------------------------------------------------
TICKET NOS.----------------------------------------------------------
REF NOS:---------------------------------------------------

NOTE:
You are to keep your Reference and Ticket numbers away from the general public.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme.

CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT IMMEDIATELY.

CONTACT SIR ERIC SVENSSON:
claimsagent.eric@yahoo.co.uk
claimsagent22_britishlottery@yahoo.co.uk
TEL:+44 7040122180

Congratulations !!!

Mrs. Lucia Cochran
Online Co-ordinator,
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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