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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.
  • +447031820870 (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.
  • paycenteroffice@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL <lotteryukint1@walla.com>
Reply-To: paycenteroffice@aim.com
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:54:10 -0700
Subject: Congratulations !!! Your email address won in the 3rd category.


Dear Lucky Winner,


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of the
Lottery UK International programme held on the 20th August 2006,
Your email address was attached to Ticket No: 99/bnk/633, and
Reference Number:708,ZX,11,665/UK which drew lucky numbers
-03,18,31,33,38,48 and serial number 018/289/06, which consequently
won in the 3rd category.


You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of £1,500,000.00
GPB (One million Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds sterling)
in cash credit. This is from a total cash prize of £7,5000,000.00 GBP
(Seven million, five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds sterling)
shared among the ten(10) international winners in this category.


CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
winning information confidential until your claims have been processed
and your winning remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
unlucky participants .


All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and
names from all Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America and the Oceania.
This promotional programme takes place once every year, after the yearly
national lotto have made their profit from the previous year's national
draws .


To file for your winning please contact the lottery organization fiduciary
agent David Brimley, at (paycenteroffice@aim.com ) or call +44 703 182 0870


All correspondence should be directed to this payment center. Remember
all winning must be claimed not later than twp weeks from this notice as
unclaimed funds will be included in the next year's stake. Please note
in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote your winning information in all correspondence to the pay center office



Furthermore, should there be any change of address do not hesitate to
inform the pay center office agent as soon as possible. Congratulations from

our members of staff, and thank you for been part of our promotional lucky
program.


Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.***************
DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MAIL.KINDLY CONTACT YOUR SPECIFIED AGENT FOR YOUR WINNINGS.
***************


Sincerely yours,
Sharon Smith
Lotto Co-ordinator
Lottery UK International
http://www.luki.co.uk.tt/

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