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

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <brian_hunt_uk@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fudiciary_agent_ianhilton@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:59:16 -0500
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION draw (#963)

The National Lottery,
P O Box 1010,
L70 1NL Liverpool,
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Date:23/11/2006
                 
                       WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#963) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on the 1st of November, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188, with
Serial number 5368/02, drew the lucky numbers:02-05-13-30-39-49-03(bonus
no.), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category
i.ematch 5 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

 

This is from a total cash prize of £2,000,000 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 periodically.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 your claim kindly fill the payment order form below to our
Fudiciary Agent
PAYMENT RELEASE ORDER FORM

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________
____________________________________________
3.SEX:_______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:________________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________
10.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________
___________________________________________
12. COUNTRY________________________________
FUDICIARY AGENT:Mr. Ian Hilton (Rev.)
Email:fudiciary_agent_ianhilton@yahoo.co.uk
          
             
              Yours faithfully,
              Brian Hunt.
              Online coordinator
              UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
              Sweepstakes International Program.

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