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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024099593 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • uklottowing@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: hopelotterypromo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:33:55 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LOTTERY=20WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Website:http://www.lottery.co.uk
Results:http://www.lotteryco.uk/res/Default.asp

Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We the management of Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion are pleased
to inform you of the result of the winners of the Group Lotto programs reference
number NHIL/UKL/F07/06, Batch Number BN00987 held on the 2nd September,
2006.Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number 002/8765 with serial
number 0000876 drew lucky WINNING numbers 8-10-23-30-32-49 which consequently
won in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay of 500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand pounds) in cash credit.This is
from a total cash prize of 5.000.000.00(Five million pounds)shared among
the ten(10) international winners in this category.

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.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names
from all over the world.

This promotional program is always conducted once in every year,we hope
with part of your winning you will be lucky in our next year USD 10 million
international lottery.

To file for your claim please contact our payment center,with this email
address (uklottowing@myway.com) Mr. Ed Morris (Fiduciary agent)+447024099593
. All correspondence should be directed to this departmenmt for subsequent
claiming of winnings. Remember all winning must be claimed not later than
21 working days of the month from this day of notice.

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please
remember to quote your ticket number and serial numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Note:Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.***************
DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MAIL.

KINDLY CONTACT YOUR SPECIFIED AGENT FOR YOUR PAYMENT.***************

yours Sincerely

Becky Handerson
Lotto Co-ordinator.
+447031840684
Website:http://www.lottery.co.uk
Results:http://www.lotteryco.uk/res/Default.asp

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam