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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "uknational awards" <uknl2006offer@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: agent_edharris@uk-national-awardoffice.com
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:39:35 -0800
Subject: ****************congratulations*************you are our winner**************

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.uk-national-award-office.co.uk
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Lucky Winner,

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to notify you of winning draw # 1032 of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, Online Sweepstakes International Lottery

Program held
on 7th of december 2006.
HOW PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a
pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished

professionals drawn from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand,
Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South

America as part of our international promotions programme conducted once in
a week to encourage prospective overseas entries.

The internet emailing idea was used, since most people are not able to
purchase tickets and play outside the UK. We hope you

being a winner, will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.

The result of our computer draw # 1032 selected your name and email address
attached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with

Serial number 5368/02. This e-ticket drew the lucky numbers:
21 32 41 42 43 46 (Bonus 17)
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. december 7th
of the Free Category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000.00( Five
Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's) in cash

credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of
£1,500,000.00(One Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds

Sterling's), to be shared by you and two others, in this category I.e.
december 7th of the Free Category.
Your prize award has been issued with your email address and is ready for
claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are

advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for
Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21

days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your winning and
remittance to you after all statutory obligations

have been satisfactorily dispensed with.
This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe.
In view of this, your £500,000.00( Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's)
would be released to you by any of our payment

offices in Europe.
Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period
may be forfeited to the pool without further

notice.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

You may wish to establish contact via e-mail with the particulars presented
below sending the batch and reference numbers and

these information's below for quick verifications and release of funds
between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday -

Sunday.

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Mr. Ed Harris
Email:agent_edharris@uk-national-awardoffice.com
PHONE:44-7024030984
FAX:44-8716618814,447005850272

Dear Winner,

We need your particulars for record purposes. Attached here is a copy of our
verifications form,please fill accordingly and

submit it to your claims agent so as to proceed with your winnings.

1. FULL NAMES:_______________________________________________________

2. DATE OF BIRTH________________________________________

3. SEX:_________________________

4. MARITAL STATUS:_____________________________________

5.CONTACT ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

6.COUNTRY:_______________________________



7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:___________________

8.OCCUPATION:_________________________________

9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF

COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_______________________________________

10.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:______________________________________

11.WINNING NUMBER:____________________________________________

12.REF NUMBER: ____________________________________



13.BATCH NUMBER: ___________________________

14.AMOUNT WON: _____________________

15.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS WINNER :________________________


16.Any form of identification:Work id,International passport

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, our agent will send you the contact
information of the payment office so you can

proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

Our winners are assured of the uttermost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and

beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest
level of confidentiality until the end of

proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This
is part of our precautionary measure to avoid

double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Any lottery double
claim detected by our monitoring committee will

lead to the Uk national lottery cancelling the winnings. making a loss for
both the real winner, and the fake (intended)

claimer.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain,
Very Truly Yours,

Mr. Campbell Grant
(Lottery Co-ordinator)

_________________________________________________________________
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