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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")
  • "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.
  • +447024061609 (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.
  • normanweitz@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL" <blploto@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: normanweitz@excite.com
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:17:34 +0100
Subject: YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION

BEVAN HOUSE,
51 Bevan Avenue
Conway LL28 5AF,
United Kingdom.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF: UKNL/26510460037/06
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of winners of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY, THE UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 3rd of
Novermber 2006 in Croydon London United Kingdon.
Your email address attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-600;with serial
number 5063-11 drew the lucky numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved
for a lump sum pay of 2,000,000 British pounds (GPB) credited to file REF
NO. UKNL/26510460037/06.
This is from the total prize money of 20,000,000.00 British pounds (GBP)
shared among the four international winners in this category. All
participants were selected randomly from worldwide website through computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies/individuals emails as
part of international promotions program, which is conducted bi-annually.
In view of this, your 2,000,000.00 British pounds (GBP) will be released to
you by our preferred payment center in London. Our agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your fund 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.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements Please take
note.
Complete the information below as you contact the fiduciary agent:
1. Full name
2. Marital Status
3. Occupation
4. Telephone/Fax number
5. Address
6. Nationality/Country
7. Winning Number
8. Batch Number
9. Reference Number
Mr.Norman Weitz
1 Angel Court, London
EC2R7AE
Tel: +44 7024061609
Email:normanweitz@excite.com

for due processing and remittance of your prize money, please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers in very one of your correspondence
with your agent. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 22
of Novmber 2006.After this date, all funds will be returned to the lottery
board as unclaimed.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your address; do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff
and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Margaret Adams


Copyright ?1995-2006 UNITEDKINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service -
Guideline
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