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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:
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY PAYMENT OFFICE <claimsagent1@britishpaymentdept.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:32:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS (WINNER)


CONGRATULATION WINNING NOTIFICATION:

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
Dear Lucky Winner ,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded weekly
final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery
held on the tweenty sixth day of august 2006
programs. The online cyber lotto 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 two winners in the category "A" with the
following winning information:

REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-1114
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 10-17-24-31-42-49-bonus 05
(please verify your winning lucky number at our web
page:http://www.national-lottery.co.uk)

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize
of £2,436,040 (two million, four hunderd and thirty six thousand,fourty
pounds sterlin) each from the total payout of £4,872,080. 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 with the information
below:

To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;
MR.James Keegan

Email:jclaims_ukpaymentoffice
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 17 and
members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program. Please note; You are hereby advice to send
the
asign fudiciray Agent details below for Processing of your Claims;

(1.) FULL NAME
(2.) FULL ADDRESS
(3).NATIONALITY.
(4) DATE OF BIRTH
(5) OCCUPATION
(6 )WINNING EMAIL
(7 )TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8) DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION
(9) SEX
(10) TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(11) MARITAL STATUE

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
Sincerely,
Mr.Brown Walter
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
NOTE: You are to contact your officer immediately with the official
EMAIL ADDRESS:claims_ukpaymentoffice

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