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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:
  • "claims 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.
  • ukonlinelottoclaimdept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: admindesk ukonlinepromo <admindesk@aukonlinepromo.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 03:44:45 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?YOU_HAVE_WON................=C2=A34?=
=?UTF-8?Q?50,000,00_GBP_CONGRATULATIONS.?=


UK LOTTERY ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
BRITISH ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).

UK Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304
WINNING NOTIFICATION........CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

We are pleased to notify you the draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held on 29/09/2006 and released on the 02/10/2006.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from Europe, America,Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries.We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £450,000.00 (Four hundred and fifity thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £5,400,000 shared amongst the first Twelve (12) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.
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 £450,000.00 (Four hundred and fifity thousand Pounds Sterling) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.To begin your claims process,you are to immediately contact your UK NATIONAL LOTTERY claims agent as follows:

Overseas Claims Unit
CONTACT NAME: Mr Steve Smith
CITY/ COUNTRY: London, United Kingdom.
EMAIL: ukonlinelottoclaimdept@yahoo.co.uk

1.Full Names:
2.Address:
3.Age:
4.Sex:
5.Marital Status:
6.Occupation:
7.Phone and fax numbers :
8.country:


Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Mr. Gerald Leeds.

Online Co-ordinator

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Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.This E-mail message(including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is privileged, proprietary, confidential and exempted from disclosure.If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited

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