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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "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 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.
  • wl2006@post.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "THE UK. NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO." <THOMSONASSOCIATES@prodigy.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:10:54 -0800
Subject: Congratulation! You Won The UK. National Lottery Annual Draw 2007 Batch N0:P2/0056

The U.K. National Lottery
Online Lottery Promo Dept.
Customer Service.
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL United Kingdom.

Date of Notification: 09-01-2007

Ref N0: KPL/09-002/JA.

Attn: Winner.

We happily bring to your notice the results of the
U.K. National Lottery annual draw held on the 7th
January 2007 in London. The online lotto draws was
conducted from an exclusive list of 50,000 e-mail
addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from
the internet.

Congratulations!

Your e-mail address attached to the Batch N0:P2/0056
with Serial number: 06/1055 drew 7th January 07 [5]
[11] [13] [17] [14] [48] [25], which subsequently won
you a prize in the category "B". You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000.00
(One Million , Five Hundred Thousand Great British
Pounds) in cash credited to file Ref N0:
KPL/09-002/JA.

This prize is from a total cash prize of
£4,500,000.00 (Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand
Great British Pounds) shared amongst the first Three
(3) lucky winners in this grand category 'B'. This
year Lottery program Jackpot is the largest ever for
the UK National Lottery. The estimated £35,000,000.00
(Thirty Five Million Great British Pounds) jackpot
would be the sixth-biggest in the U.K. history next
year (2008).


The Lowest was the £4,000,000.00 (Four Million Great
British Pounds) jackpot that was shared between Four
(4) lucky winners in January 2006 draw of the Big
Game Mega Millions' predecessor.


For security reasons, be advised to keep your winning
information from public notice until your claims is
processed and your prize money remitted to you as
required in this grand category "B' terms and
conditions of claims. This is a part of our
precautionar y measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by non winners.

Please note that, your lucky winning number: [5] [11]
[13] [17] [14] [48] [25] falls within our European
Booklet representative office in London as indicated
in our play Coupon. In view of this, your
£1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand
Great British Pounds) would be released to you by our
affiliate bank.

Our approved agent, Mr. Phil Smith will immediately
commence on the processing of your claims, to
facilitate the release of your Winnings to you as
soon as you make contact with him.

Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim,
kindly contact our certified and accredited claims
agent with the information below:

***********************************************
Name: Phil Smith
E-mail: WL2006@post.com
Claims processing agent
For: The U.K National Lottery.
***********************************************
You are advised to provide him with the following
information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

Note that, all claims processes and clearance
procedures must be duly completed early to avoid
impersonation and or double claiming.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
quote your Reference and Batch numbers in any
correspondences with our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff
of the UK National Lottery Promo.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs. Patricia Spencer.
Online Co-ordinator
UK National Lottery Promo


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