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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 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.
  • +447031897083 (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.
  • percywelsh@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • cathywill32@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: UK LOTTERY <percywelsh@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:30:26 -0500
Subject: Happily announced to you!!!

Customer Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
# 13 Beach Pkw, Princess Dolly Carlin Towers
Manchester, United Kingdom

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the United Kingdom Sweepstake
Lottery International programs held on the 30th August 2006 in London.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 756 00545-188 with
Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore, been approved
to claim a total sum of five hundred thousand, United States Dollars in

cash.

This is from a total cash prize of US $5 Million Dollars, shared
amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category. All
participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies' websites.

This promotion takes place annually, Please note that your lucky
winning category two(2) falls within our United Kingdom booklet
representative office in Europe from the five booklet representative
in London,Sydney,Seoul,Spain,Athlanta as indicated in the play coupon
and 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 as
this
is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted
abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the
below details for processing of your claims. Good luck from me and
members of staff of the UK Sweepstake lottery, Overseas Claims Unit.

United Kingdom Fiduciary agent
Contact Person: Mr. Percy Welsh

Email:percywelsh@yahoo.co.uk

Telephone: + 44 703 189 7083

Fill and submit the following personal data to the fiduciary agent for
follow up

1. Full names
2. Gender
3. Date of birth
4. Nationality:
5. Country of residence
6. Marital status
7. Home address or office address
8 Telephone and fax number
9. Occupation
10.Amount won
11.Email address

Method Of Payment is either via Bank Transfer, Draft or Check and to
avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers and Name in any correspondences with us or our
designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Peggy Martins.


Director. International Promotions Unit,
Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program. Warning! Fraudulent emails are
Circulating that appear to be using UK NATIONAL Lottery addresses, but
are not from The UK NATIONAL Lottery.
PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO: Mrs.Catharine Williams.
CUSTOMER CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT: cathywill32@yahoo.co.uk

==================================================================
The national lottery promo Awards is proudly sponsored by the
Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group,Toshiba,Dell Computers,
Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.
The Free lottery internet draw is held quarterly every year and is so
organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers
Worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won
Annually in more than 150 countries Worldwide.

====================================================================
WARNING!!!

ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS
SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY; THIS WILL HELP US TO FIGHT
SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED
CO-OPERATION.






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