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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: Lawson Hill <officer_claimagent@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:33:55 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FILL AND SEND BACK TO US



UK National Lottery

Dear Winner ,

Below is a Winner's Claim Form. You are required to Click reply before you fill the form below. YOU ARE TO FILL AND SUMMITE THIS FORM AT ONCE.ONCE THIS IS DONE YOU WILL RECEIVE A NOTIFICATION FROM OUR VERIFICATION COMMITTEE ON HOW THE BEST OPTION TO TRANSFER YOUR WINNINGS TO YOU AT ONCE.CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN.

Regards,
Mr Lawson Hill
Fiduaciary Agent
Uk National Lottery


Congratulations once again from all the staff of UK NATIONAL LOTTERY. In order to verify your winnings, we need your particulars for record purposes, You are expected to fill the form accordingly, and send it back to us, so we can proceed with your winnings, you are also expected to send this form within 36 hours so as not to cause any unnecessary delay. Once again congratulations from all the staff.
This form is valid for only those who have won the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY. Fill in the required fields in the space provided below. No field should be left blank, because your particulars is needed for record purposes.
Please fill in the appropriate information in the space below: WINNER'S VERIFICATION FORM
WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA First Name.: [input] *
Middle Name.: [input]
Last Name.: [input] *

Gender.: MaleFemale

Month Of Birth.: Month January Febuary March April MayJune JulyAugust September October November December
Day: Day1 23 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Year: [input]

Marital Status.: Single Married Divorced
Nationality.: [input] *
Religion.: [input]
Occupation.: [input]

Address 1.: [input] *
Address 2.: [input]
City.: [input] *
State/Province.: [input] *
Zip Code.: [input] *

Mobile phone No.: [input] *
House Phone No.: [input] *
Fax No.: [input]
Email Address.: [input] * eg. username@domainname.com

WINNING INFORMATION
Batch Number.: [input] *
Serial Number.: [input] *
Refrence Number.: [input] *
This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: [input] No: [input]



UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
COPYRIGHT ? 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED


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