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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: "U.K." <ukweb_serveuk@walla.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:58:28 -0300
Subject: THE RESULT OF THE LOTTERY DRAWS



--
The National Lottery
P.O.Box 17,
Kempsford, SW5 9LA
London.
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
OCTOBER 5TH, 2006

Dear Lucky Winner,

THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SEASONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We happily announce to you the draw (#1082) of the UK LOTTERY SEASONAL PROMO, online Sweepstakes International program held on October 4th , 2006.

Your e-mail address drew the lucky numbers: 02- 07-11- 21- 33- 34 (Bonus no.08), and 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 £500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file TU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £7,000000 shared amongst the (14) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus. 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 (ONCE IN EVERY YEAR). 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 £500,000 (Five Hundred 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 contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you by our trustees. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

To begin the claiming processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our only licensed and accredited fudiciary claims/agent with the information below:-

Name: John Dennison
Email: claimsagent@ukpromo1.co-mail.com

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your claims agent.

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as any case of double claim will not be entertained).

Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Wilson Forrester.
UK lottery Promo Co-ordinator.






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