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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:
  • "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.
  • +447024066875 (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.
  • phijohnson_agent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "uk department" <ukdepartment2@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:19:15 +0000
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD. W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM.
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
FINAL AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today,20th of
November, 2006 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ON LINE PROMO
PROGRAMME, held on the 1ist of November, 2006.
Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address, with
serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers 43-10-42-37-10-43(bonus
no.),this lucky number subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2ND category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £552,000,00 (Five
hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash prize of £5,520,000,00(Five
million, five hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling) shared amongst
the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
All participants of this on line 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 £552,000,00 (Five hundred and fifty-two
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;
Mr. Brian Hunt
Representative office
10 Camelot close thamesmead.
London E280ES
United Kingdom.
Email:phijohnson_agent@yahoo.co.uk
Tell: +44 702 406 6875
Provide him with the information below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
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 once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank
you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.
Yours Truly,
Sir Carl water.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).
The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and is intended
solely for the use of the named addressee.Access, copying or re-use of the
e-mail or any information contained therein by any other person is not
authorised.If you are not the intended recipient please notify us
immediately by returning the e-mail to the originator.(16b)

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