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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")
• 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.
  • +447031930978 (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.
  • tim_san_ders@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lady Rita Mosley." <jenni@reedtribe.org>
Reply-To: david_palmer_org@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:47:01 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION.................YOU WON!!!

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD
HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD. W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM.
(Customer Services)
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the Draw 1067 of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online
Sweepstakes International
program held on 29th of June 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 023-1111-790-458 with Serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers:05-11-12-16-17-45-42
,and a bonus number of 24 w this lucky number subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2nd category.(bonus no.42), .You have therefore been approved
to claim a total sum of £215,502 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
THOUSAND,FIVE HUNDRED AND TWO POUNDS STERLING)in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £2,801,526
shared amongst the first thirteen(13) lucky winners in this category. This
year's Lottery Program Jackpot is the 5th largest ever in the history of
Europe Sweepstakes. 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 weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your playcoupon.
In view of this, your £215,502 would be released to you by
any of our payment offices in Europe.Our European 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 claims 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 for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
FIDUCIARY AGENT:Barr. Tim Sanders
Email: tim_san_ders@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: +44 703 193 0978
+44 702 406 4714 .

(Form HLP)
REFERENCE NUMBER: Ref:
UK/9420X2/68
BATCH NO: 074/05/ZY369
FULL NAME...............................................
WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS..................................
FULL ADDRESS:...........................................
SEX:................................
AGE...................................
OCCUPATION.............................
TEL.......................
MOBILE................
COUNTRY................................

___________________________ ___________________

Date. Signature

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