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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447862114263
• 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.
  • claimsverifi_cation@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Michael Williams" <chowlee@renaudinvestigations.com>
Reply-To: claimsverifi_cation@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 01:53:17 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION



PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER: 065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER: 023-1111-790-458

OUR REF: 27349/46

WINNING NOTIFICATION




We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME held on th of 1st October 2006.

Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address, with serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers 08-12-13-19-26-28(bonus no.11),this lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £850,000.00(Eight hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash prize of£8,500,000.00, shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants of this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies listed online. This promotion takes place Quarterly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in the United Kingdom as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £850,000.00(Eight hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment office in the United Kingdom.

Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him/her via electronic mail (email) or other options made available to you.

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. 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 claims agent with the contact below;


Barrister Michael Williams.
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Department, OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.
TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: +447862114263
Fax : +448712476530
E-mail: claimsverifi_cation@yahoo.co.uk


You are required to provide him with the information below for verification purposes:
1.Full Name:__________________________________________________________
2.Full Address:________________________________________________________
3.Marital Status:______________________________________________________
4.Occupation:_________________________________________________________
5.Age:_______________________________________________________________
6.Sex:_______________________________________________________________
7.Nationality:_________________________________________________________
8.Country of Residence:________________________________________________
9.Telephone Number:__________________________________________________
10.Fax Number:_______________________________________________________
11.Ticket Number(above):______________________________________________
12.Reference Number(above):___________________________________________
1 3.Batch Number(above):_______________________________________________

For due processing and remittance of your prize money.

Note: You must contact your claims officer not later than 2(two) weeks after this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications.

please remember to quote your reference number in every one of your correspondences with your claims officer. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.



CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Clive Groove .
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

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