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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.
  • +447024054681 (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.
  • claimsagentkimberly007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Promotions Manager <online@onlinecoordinator5.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:17:20 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Online Notification





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

With pleasure The National Lottery, organizers of the Uk National Lottery,Euromillions,Daily Play,Thunderball,Lotto Hotpicks,and Lotto Extra announce to you the result of draw (1088) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday july 29th 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 02 10 11 29 31 49, 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 £250,000. ( Two Hundred & Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/90231108/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £5,400,000.00 shared amongst the first four (4) 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 co-oporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly until the end of the year. (31/12/2006).

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. (5647560054) In view of this, your £250,000. 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 in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

please you are advised to contact the our fiduciary agent with your winning numbers, this is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Be warned.

Basically, there are three options for you to get your prize (certified Cashiers cheque), you are to choose one. They include:

(A) BANK ACTIVATION OPTION: Requires you activating an account with our paying bank where your funds will be deposited and then transferred to you.

(B)Come to our Offshore Payment Center in UK to receive your Prize.

(C) COURIER OPTION: Where our courier firm will deliver your parcel to you at your requested destination after taking care of all necessities.


To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the fiduciary agent via the email address for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you. Below is the contact address:


Please write to the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY FIDUCIARY AGENT with your details as stated below.

FIDUCIARY AGENT
MRS. KIMBERLY ROLLANDS
EMAIL : claimsagentkimberly007@yahoo.co.uk

FILL AND SUBMIT.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________
3.SEX:_______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:________________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________
10.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________
11. COUNTRY________________________________
12. PREFERRED MODE OF PAYMENT-----------------------------------------------

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Richard Lloyd,

Online coordinator.
TELEPHONE NUMBER:+44 702 405 4681
Sweepstakes International Program.
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
To view more testimonies about the national lottery click on the links below:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15798589&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=eur--pound-77m-richer--name_page.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1721352005

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