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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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

Fraud email example:

From: "mercy joules" <mrsjoules9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: uklotto_claimscenter@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:19:10 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION OVER YOUR (£750,000 Pounds) WINNING VERIFICATION

UK LOTTERY NOTIFICATION DESK

CONGRATULATION OVER YOUR (£750,000 Pounds) WINNING VERIFICATION

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Website: http://www.lottery.co.uk
Results: http://www.lottery.co.uk/res/Default.asp

WINNING NOTIFICATION/ PROCESSING ADVICE

We are officially pleased to inform you of been awarded (£750,000 Pounds) in
the Lottery Winners national programs which e-mail addresses are picked
randomly by software powered by the Internet through the worldwide website.
Your e-mail address was amongst those chosen for the Lottery Winners
national programs.

Your e-mail address attached to a ticket number 56475600545188 with serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers, 10, 22, 41, 37, 31, 02 BONUS (18)

Which consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category via our electronic
ticket as stated above. You are therefore been approved for a sum payout of
£750,000 (Seven hundred fifty thousand pounds) in cash credited to the file
reference number: UKLT/245512568021/05.

For this reason of randomly picking of winners from worldwide website, your
name is omitted for further clarifications and verification when you are to
claim for your winning prize.

You are therefore been approved the sum pay out of (£750,000 Pounds). Please
note that your lucky winning number falls within our European Booklet
representative office in Europe. In View of this, your (£750,000 Pounds)
will be released to you by our security firm in Europe. Our European agent
will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds as soon as you contact them.

All participants were selected not by individual lotto playing but through a
random computer ballot system drawn from an over 800,000 company's websites
and 1,000,000 individual email addresses registered from all over the world
as part of our international promotions program which we conduct.

This promotion takes place for growth of humanitarian assistance. For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to Claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent assigned to you
for the verification and processing your claims for your total payment (You
will receive more information upon your acknowledgment of this email and be
regular to your mail for response will come to you as soon as possible):

Contact Person: Mrs. Helen MARSHAL CHIY
Email: uklotto_claimscenter@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: For now we don't attend to calls due to the rush of winners

This lottery is promoted and sponsored by software corporations and other
private organizations to enhance unity and also encourage all micro-soft
users all over the world. It helps individuals generate fortunes, which
would encourage them to expand their business frontiers thereby creating
more opportunities and assisting with humanitarian concerns within their
immediate environment.

Note: You are advised to always quote your ticket and lucky numbers in order
to avoid complications. Furthermore, should there be any change of address
do inform us as soon as possible.

Congratulations once again from all members of our staff, and thank you for
being part of our promotions program.

MRS M. Joules
CO-ORDINATOR
EUROPEAN PRIZE AWARD
Zonal Coordinator Online International Promotions Unit,

N.B: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified from this
program.

WARNING!!!
ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS SHOULD
BE FOWARDED TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY; THIS WILL HELP US TO FIGHT SCAM AND
LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANKS FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED.

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