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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • smithwhite10@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mrslindarice110@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:38:05 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20THE=20DESK=20OF=20THE=20PROMOTION=20MANAGER?=

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
LONDON, UK.
PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF Nº: UK/2251256003/05
BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD
WINNING NOTIFICATION
CONGRATULATIONS!
We the Board and Management of British Lottery London, UK wishes to
inform you the results of the
E-mail address ballot lottery international program held on 27th day
of SEPTEMBER, 2006. It is yet to be claimed and you are getting the final

NOTIFICATION as regards this.This results is today released to you and
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545-188 with
Serialnumber 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
11-13-26-34-44-48-02 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category .

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $2,000,000.00
(TWO MILLION USD) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
$80.400,000.00 shared amongst the(17)lucky winners in this category.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 bianually.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and
your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program
by some participants.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Europe
booklet representative office in UK as indicated in your play coupon. In
view of this, your $2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION USD) will be released to
you by any of our payment offices in (EUROPE or AFRICA).Endeavor to
Quote your reference/batch numbers in your correspondence with us and you
are advised not to
expose your numbers to avoid double clamming and unwarranted abuse of
this program or your winnings will be void Please be warned. To file for
your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: MR SMITH WHITE via
this email address:(smithwhite10@yahoo.it)

WITH YOUR DETAIL INFORMATION AS FOLLOWS
1.FULL NAMES: _________________________________
2.ADDRESS: ______________________________________________
3.SEX:__________
4.AGE:_________
5.MARITAL STATUS: ________________________________
6.OCCUPATION: _________________________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:____________________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:______________________________________
9.REF NUMBERS _____________ BATCH NUMBER: ___________________
10.TICKET NUMBER: _________________________________
11.SERIAL NUMBER: _________________________
12.AMOUNT WON: _______________________________________
13.CITY:___________________ ZIP CODE:_____________________________
14.STATE: ______________________________
15.COUNTRY: ______________________________________________
16.ANNUAL INCOME _____________________________________________
17.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS A WINNER:_________________________________

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
Should there be any
change of addresses do inform our agent as soon as possible.
ANYONE BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/ HER
CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS.
Once again congratulations from me and members of staff of THE BRITISH LOTTERY


Sincerely Yours,
MRS LINDA RICE
International Promotion Manager.

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