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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 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.
  • mailclaimsagentfox_7@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <marianjones@uknationallottery93.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:42:42 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER!!!!


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday 23rd September,
2006.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:1416-4612-750
(bonusno.25), with Serial number 3187-17 drew the lucky numbers:31-17-8-28-55
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5
plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£750,000(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
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 arelisted
online. This promotion takes place weekly.Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our European booklet representative office
in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
£750,000(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release
of your funds as soon as you make contact.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
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.
In order to verify your winnings, we need your particulars
for record purposes.Below here is a copy of our verifications form,
please fill accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings.
Once again congratulations from all the staffs.

*Name of Beneficiary:-------------------
*Address:------------------------------
*City/State:----------------------------
*Nationality:---------------------------
*Country Of Residence:-------------------
*Age: --------------------------------
*Sex:----------------------------------
*Email Address: -------------------------
*Tel: ----------------------------------
*Fax:----------------------------------
*Occupation:----------------------------
*Next of Kin:---------------------------

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: Mr Michael Fox.
Email 1: Mailclaimsagentfox_7@yahoo.co.uk

Yours faithfully,
Marian Jones (MRS).
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

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