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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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 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.
  • claimsagentuknationallottery11@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UKNATIONAL LOTTERY" <uknationallottery076@infroagentclaimsagentvan.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:29:41 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: NOTIFICATION........................YOU HAVE WON 250,000GBP


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010 gnb
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
(8am-6pm)uk GMT
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Dear Sir/Madam,

NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the Draw 1114 of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on the 12/09/2006, Your
e-mail address was attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers :10.17.24.31.42.49.Bonus
number [05] which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£250,000 (One million pound sterlings)in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £250,000 shared
amongst the four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000 unions,associations, and corporate
bodies that are listed online.
This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your
lucky number falls within our European booklet representative office
in Europe as indicated in your playcoupon. In view of this, your
£1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
information confidential till your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem
fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please
be warned.

To file for your claim,You are adviced
to fill the form below.
1. FULL NAMES:
____________________________________________
2. DATE OF BIRTH:
_________________________________________________
3. SEX:
___________________________
4. MARITAL STATUS:
_____________________________________
5.CONTACT ADDRESS:
____________________________________
6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
________________________________________
7.OCCUPATION:
________________________________________________
8.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_/_________________________________________
9. INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRICE COLLECTION
(A)CHEQUE-----------
(B)DRAFT------------
(C)BANK TRANSFER----
IF BANK TRANSFER,
( Details of your account)
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Upon receipt of the duly requested datas,i`ll send you
the contact information of the payment office so you
can proceed with effecting the release of your claims
CONTACT OUR FIDUCIARY AGENT
Agent:Linda Andrew
Email :claimsagentuknationallottery11@yahoo.co.uk
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL
LOTTERYSweepstakes
International Program
NATIONAL LOTTERY

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