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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim 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.
  • +442000006207
• 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.
  • agentjblake@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lotto Coordinator" <winnotice160@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: agentjblake@excite.com
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:42:48 -0600
Subject: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WON! CONTACT CLAIM AGENT FOR PRIZE CLAIM

The UK National Lottery
Accounts Dept.
P.O. Box 287
Watford WD18 9TTM
UNITED KINGDOM.
Ref: UK/KLM/9510R9/06
Batch: 4/11/KLM/06

We announce to you the draw (#1142) of the UK National Lottery
draw/Promotions held on the 2nd of December 2006 in London UK, your email
address was attached to ticket number 36475600545-163 UK, with serial number
9428/05 drew the lucky numbers 09-11-15-31-42-46-27, and consequently Won
you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of £1,000,000.00
(GBP) in cash credited to file Ref No: UK/KLM/9510R9/06. This is from a
total prize money of £8,000,000.00 (GBP) shared among the Eight
International winners in this category.

All participants email addresses were selected randomly from our computer
balloting draw system and were extracted from over 100,000 companies as part
of our international promotions program, which is conducted annually.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office here in Europe. In view of this, your £1,000,000.00
(GBP) will be released to you by our preferred payment center in London. Our
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your winnings as soon as you contact the payment centre.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your winnings 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 by non participants/unscrupulous individuals.

Your prize is deposited safely with a security banking firm here in United
Kingdom.

You are to provide the agent with the following when replying:

Name:
Sex:
Age:
Address:
Tel/Fax No:
Country/State:

To file for your claim, please contact your fiduciary claim agent;

Mr. John Blake.
Email: agentjblake@excite.com
Tel: +44 200 000 6207
LOTTERY FIDUCIARY AGENT

For due processing and remittance of your prize, please remember to quote
your Reference and Lucky numbers in every one of your correspondences with
your claim fiduciary agent.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 24th of December,
2006. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

Congratulations.

Sincerely,
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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