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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.
  • +447011136832 (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.
  • agentbenjowen@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT <onlinecontact@internationalsupport.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:18:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! [Batch: 24/00318/IPD].


UK National Lottery
PO Box 1290
Liverpool
L70 1NL
United Kingdom.
Ref: XYL /26510460036/05
Batch: 24/00318/IPD
WINNING NOTIFICATION!
Date:25/10/2006.

Dear lucky winner,
We happily announce to you the draw (#1021) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on the 22th of October,
2006. Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number: 56475612545166 with
Serial number 5367/02 drew the lucky numbers:
01 - 15 - 23 - 30 - 45 - 49 (33 Bonus Ball)
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st categories i.e. match
5.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £952,536 (Nine
Hundred And Fifty Two Thousand, Five Hundred And Thirty Six Pounds
sterling) in cash credited to file XYL/26510460036/05.
This is from a cash prize of £1,905,072 (One Million, Nine Hundred And
Five, Thousand Seventy Two Pounds Sterling).Shared amongst the (2)
lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus. All 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 twice weekly to encourage prospective overseas entries. The internet
emailing ideal was used, since most people are not able to purchase
tickets and play outside the UK. We hope with part of your prize awards,
you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.
This promotion takes place Twice weekly (Wednesdays and Saturday). The
idea of this promotion is that within ten years from now, there will be
notable richness amongst many unusual people around the world. This
will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage where
they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will only be chosen in
this online email promotions once, which means that subsequent weekly
winnings will not get to you again, so its your choice to spend the funds
wisely on something that will last you a long time. And please do not
border following up this email, if you have benefited from this donation
in previous years.
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 £952,536 (Nine Hundred And Fifty Two Thousand, Five
Hundred And Thirty Six Pounds Sterling) will be released to you by our
payment office in UK.
Our Fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security
reasons, 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. Any
lottery double claim detected by our monitoring committee will lead to the
UK national lottery canceling the winnings. Making a loss for both the
real winner, and the fake (intended) claimer.
For claims of prize win, you will have to visit our office here in
LONDON. For winners who cannot make it over to the UK in person to claim
prize win, you will have to reply back to us so we can arrange for an
alternative immediately so you can claim your prize win money as soon as
possible before forfeiture date.
REPLY IMMEDIATELY
Do contact our fiduciary Agent: Owen Benjamin(Mr.)
Email:
agentbenjowen@gawab.com
Tel: +447011136832
Fax:+447005942017

Once again congratulations...
Cordially,
Sir George Arisson Online Co-coordinator
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International
Program.
You must be 16 or above to play or claim prize
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All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline
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