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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.
  • +447023054651 (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.
  • agentmarshal@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • agentmarshal_3@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: DIRECTORY LOTTERY ORG <directorylottery@directorylottery.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:54:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: **CONGRATULATIONS**YOU ARE A WINNER**


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
THE MARINA OFFICES.
ST PETERS YACHT 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 the 25th 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 this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of eight (8) winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:

REF No: UK/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 seven lucky winners in this category are therefore to receive a cash prize of 864,008 ( 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 begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners.To file for your claim, please contact the Claims Agent:

AGENT NAME:DR. JONATHAN MARSHAL
TEL: (+44) 702 305 4651
CONTACT EMAILS: agentmarshal@rediffmail.com or
agentmarshal_3@yahoo.com

NOTE: TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE NOTIFIED THE RIGHTFUL WINNER, WE HAVE DELIBERATELY AVOIDED ALLOWING THE WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS TO APPEAR IN THE ''TO'' FIELD. THIS IS TO ENABLE US VERIFY THAT THE EMAIL ADDRESS YOU FILL INTO THE FORM ABOVE MATCHES WITH THE WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 30 days from the date of this Notice. After this date all unclaimed funds would be returned to source. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Anybody under the age of 18 and members of staff of affiliate agencies are automatically disqualified from this programme.

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

Name of Beneficiary ------------------------------------------
Address: ------------------------------------------------------
City/State:-----------------------------------------------------
Nationality:-------------------------
Sex------------
Winning Email Address: -----------------------------------------
Tel: ---------------------------------------------------
Occupation:------------------------
Marital status:------------------
Age: ----------------------------
Next of Kin:-------------------------------------------
Amount Won. -------------------------------
Lucky Nos:------------------------------------------------------
Ticket No: -------------------------

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme.

Reply as soon as possible.

Congratulations !!!

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

(c)Copyright 2006 The UK National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved.

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