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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • +447031908087 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704713183 (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.
  • weblotto_1claimsagent@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "WEBLOTTERY DRAWS 2006" <weblotto_1claimsagent@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:28:20 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A CERTIFIED WINNER


FROM:WEB-LOTTERY CORPORATION
REF NUMBER: EAASL/7410B1/06
BATCH NUMBER: 675701-ECD02
PO BOX 267
WATFORD, WD18 9TTM
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the
Web-Lottery Corporation
program held on the 14th of November,2006. Your e-mail
address attached
to ticket number 5366/02 with serial number 5266/02 drew
lucky numbers
15-18-23-31-37-49 [38] bonus ball, which consequently won in
the 3RD category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
?00,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling Only) or
the United States Dollar equivalent of $921,450USD (Nine
Hundred and Twenty One Thousand,Four Hundred and Fifty
Dollars) in cash/check credited to file number
NTL/65123/002.

All participants were selected through an automated
computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and
30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from the
world wide web as part of our international
promotions program which we conduct every year.No tickets
were sold.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your
play coupon.In
view of this, your ?00,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds
sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe.Our Agent will immediately commence the
process 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.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 kindly provide the following

information and send it to our Fiduciary Agent via his
email,who shall clear you
as a winner.

(1)FULL NAMES (2)DATE OF BIRTH(3)SEX (4)MARITAL
STATUS(5)CONTACT ADDRESS (6)PHONE
NUMBER(7)OCCUPATION(8)COUNTRY

Mr.McGary Moore
Information and Payment Bureau,
Foreign Service Department,
London Representative Office.
Tel(1):+44-703-1908-087
Tel(2):+44-702-4028-285
Fax: +44-870-471-3183
Email: weblotto_1claimsagent@yahoo.com.hk

Upon receipt of the duly requested data as shown above,he
shall send to you
the contact information of the paying Office so you can
proceed
with effecting the release of your funds.

Note that all prize funds must be claimed not later than 3
weeks.After this date all funds will be returned to the
LOTTERY TREASURY as unclaimed. In order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications,please endeavor to
quote your Reference Number:EAASL/7410B1/06 and Batch
number:675701-ECD02 in every correspondence with your
agent.Furthermore,should there be any change in your
address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Good luck from members of staff of the Web-Lottery
International.

Yours faithfully,
Kimberly Mink
ONLINE SUPERVISOR
WEB-LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.

You must be 16 or over to play or claim a prize

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