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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:
  • "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.
  • +447033457806 (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.
  • agent_claimsofficer007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: OWEN GREEN <agent_claimsofficer007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:38:37 +0100
Subject: Ref: UK/9420X2/68

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
11, november,2006.


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#966) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on
11 november,2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: (#966) (bonus no.),
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2ndcategory i.ematch 5 plus
bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1.5m (One
Million Five Hundred thousand pounds sterling ) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £1,000,000 shared
amongst the first four (4) 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 LondOn booklet representative office in London
as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your £1.5m (One Million
Five Hundred thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of
our payment offices in UK.

Our London agent will immediately commence theprocess 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 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 fiduciary agent:

MR owengreen
EMAIL:agent_claimsofficer007@yahoo.co.uk

l entered for draw No.137 and was luckily selected among the lucky
winners.

A total of 1 million email addresses were entered for
this promotion. All emails are submitted by our partner international
email
service providers/ marketing companies and public services providers.

Please take the time to review this notification and note the terms of
expiration 4-09-2006. To redeem your prize, simply fill the certificate
of
your prize claims below.

===========================================================================================
CERTIFICATE OF PRIZE CLAIM (Receipt Official Notification Letter) [FILE
REF 02- 543210]
--------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
[FULL NAME OF
WINNER]....................................................................
[FULL MAILING ADDRESS].....................

[COUNTRY/ REGION]..........................

[STATE/ PROVINCE]..........................

[DATE OF BIRTH]...........................

[SEX].............................

[MARITAL STATUS].............................

[OCCUPATION]..........................

[CURRENT EMAIL]..........................

[TEL/FAX].................................

Please indicate "X" for the option you want your prize remitted to you.
Listed are the options of receiving prize payment.

1,TRAVELLING TO LIVERPOOL,UNITED KINGDOM OFFICE FOR PRIZE COLLECTION:
..............! ..! .....[.....]

2, BY COURIER DELIVERY OF YOUR PRIZE:
.....................................................[.....]

You are required to submit filled form to the accredited claims
processing Staff

MR owengreen

EMAIL:agent_claimsofficer007@yahoo.co.uk
OVAL PROCESS:

Fax:+44 70334 57806

Tell:+44 70111 46479

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Submitted Form will be manually verified and processed by the assigned
Claims Processing Officer (CPS) The Processing of your form will be
completed within the next 48 hours of receiving your LOTTERY CLAIMS
APPLICATION FORM-C. You will receive an update on the status of your
application once completely processed.

DENIAL OF APPLICATION:

Please be informed that the following listed Country have been banned
from participating in the lottery. Vietnam, Iraq, South Africa,
Nigeria venzuela and North Korea if you are a resident of the listed
country you cannot file claims for this lottery prize. Please delete
this Notification as your prize processing will be annulled without notice.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
RHODA ZIMMER
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days

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