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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 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.
  • claimscatherinenola@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: NORRIS WARNER <claimscatherinenola@jmail.co.za>
Date: 8 Nov 2006 20:05:58 -0000
Subject: ATTN : Winner -Claim Your Winnings

Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


Uk National Lottery
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England
Ref: UK/9420X2/70
Batch: 074/05/ZY345

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (1126) of the U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Sat 7th Oct 2006"Your e-mail address" attached to ticket number:"56475600545 188" with Serial number" 5368/02" drew the lucky numbers: 04 . 13 . 23 . 24 . 26 . 36 . [45] Bonus Ball''which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 5. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of " £4,000.000.00 (Four Million Pounds Sterling)"
in cash credited to file "KTU/9023118308/03." This is from a total cash prize of £12,000,000" shared amongst the (3) 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 weekly.

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 of " £4,000.000.00 (Four Million 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 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. Please be warned. To file for your
claim, please contact our fiduciary agent below:

Catherine Nola(Mrs):Email : claimscatherinenola@jmail.co.za


Sincerely,
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY Member Services
Sweepstakes International Program.
NORRIS WARNER
Please do not reply to this e-mail, because this is an unmonitored alias. If you have general questions regarding your winnings please contact the fiduciary agent at the lower left corner for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY comprehensive online help.

CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited from
unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution or copying
of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.


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