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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • mr_shawn_patrick@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Shawn Patrick <mr_shawn_patrick@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 20 Sep 2006 20:06:02 -0400
Subject:

Content-Type: text/html

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY Headquarters:

Customer Service

Ref:UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

# 13 Beach Pkw,Princess Dolly CarlinTowers

Manchester,United Kingdom.





WINNING NOTIFICATION:





We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-ONLINE-LOTTERYInternational programs held on the Friday,Sept.20th 2006)inMANCHESTER, UK. Your e-mail address attached to ticketnumber:



56475600545188 with Serial number: 5368/02 drew theluckynumbers:19-6-26-17-35-7, which subsequently won you thelotteryin the 2nd category.



You have therefore been approved toclaim a total sum of US$500,000(Five Hundred Thousand UnitedStatesDollars) in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03.



This is from atotal cash prize of US $5 Million dollars, shared amongthe first Ten(10) lucky winners in this category.All participants were selectedrandomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw

system andextracted from over 100,000 companies websites.



This promotion takesplace annually, Please note that your lucky winning category # :two(2)falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe(UK)from the five booklet reps.



(london,sydney,seoul,lagos,athlanta) asindicated in your play coupon.



In view of this, your US$500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to youby our payment office in europe.



Our European agent will immediatelycommence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon asyou contact her.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep yourwinning information confidential till your claims is processed and yourmoney remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim yourprize.



This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid doubleclaiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulouselements.

Please be warned.



To file for your claim, please contactour fudiciary agent in charge of

category two(2)winners:



Shawn Patrick.



Email mr_shawn_patrick@yahoo.co.uk





To avoid unnecessary delays andcomplications, please quote your full names,your country, your privateTelephone and fax number,

yourreference/batch numbers etc in anycorrespondences with us or our designated agent.





Congratulationsonce more from all members and staffs of this program.



Thank you forbeing part of our promotional lottery program.



Sincerely,



DAVID E.ELLIOT.



UK Online Lottery draw Co-ordinator

Please fill out thisconfirmation form below,send it to your fudiciary agent so that shewill assist you in filling out for your claim and the submitting ofyour winning file to our Headquarters for access.

..CONFIRMATIONFORM..



PERSONAL DATA

FULL NAMES:___________

GENDER________________________

DATE OF BIRTH:__________________

NATIONALITY:___________________

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:___________

MARITAL STATUS: _____________________

HOMEADDRESS: _______________________

OFFICE ADDRESS:________________________

TEL NUMBER:____________________________

FAX NUMBER:_____________________________

OCCUPATION:____________________________

POSITION HELD:___________________________

TICKET NUMBER:___________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS:___________________________

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