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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 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.
  • +447040122601 (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.
  • johnsonbricks_worldclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UKNATIONALWEB LOTTERY" <webgames847@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:21:21 +0000
Subject: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England

Customer Services

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING
NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
UNITEDKINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The online
cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail
addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this
automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three
winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:

REF No: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
£1,450,000(One million,Four Hundred and FiftyThousand poundsterling)each
from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail
address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,
statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.To
begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners
with the information below:

To file for your claim,Contact the processing Consultant :

Name: Mr.Johnson Bricks

Email:johnsonbricks_worldclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +44 704 012 2601
Fax: +44 707 515 8432

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are
to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your
reference and ticket numbers (This is important as a case of double claims
will not be entertained).You are hereby advice to send the assign judiciary
Agent details below for Processing
of your Claims:

(1)FULL NAME
(2)FULL ADDRESS
(3)NATIONALITY.
(4)DATE OF BIRTH
(5)OCCUPATION
(6)WINNING EMAIL
(7)TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8)DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION
(9)SEX
(10)TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(11)MARITAL STATUE
(12)COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND RESIDENT

Sincerely,
Mrs. Cecilia Moore
For UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

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