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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:
  • "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 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.
  • +447024029818 (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.
  • uknationallotteryagentclaims@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK LOTTERY" <WEBDN95V401@prodigy.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:48:11 -0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION




UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING
NOTIFICATION
Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the
just concluded annual first draws of UNITED KINGDOM
NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The
online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated random computer search from the internet,
no tickets were sold. After this automated computer
ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two
winners in the category "A" with the following
winning information:

REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

You as well as the other winner are therefore to
receive a cash prize of ?pound;1,000,000 (One Million
Pounds Sterling) each from the total payout. Your
prize award has been insured with your e-mail address
and will be transferred to you upon meeting our
requirements, statutory obligations, verifications,
validations and satisfactory report. To begin the
claims processing of your prize winnings you are
advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims
agent for category "A" winners with the information
below:

To file for your claim, please contact the processing
agent;

Mr. Michael Field

TELL:+44-702-402-9818
Email: uknationallotteryagentclaims@yahoo.co.uk


Remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information
away from the general public especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).
Anybody under the age of 17 and members of the
affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program. Please note; You are
hereby advice to send the asign fudiciray Agent
details below for Processing of your Claims;

(1.) FULL NAME
(2.) FULL ADDRESS
(3).NATIONALITY.
(4) DATE OF BIRTH
(5) OCCUPATION
(6 )WINNING EMAIL
(7 )TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8) DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION
(9) SEX
(10) TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(11) MARITAL STATUE

Reply to this confidential email account:
uknationallotteryagentclaims@yahoo.co.uk

Congratulations once more from our members of staff
and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Caroline bryan
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
NOTE: You are to contact our officer immediately with
the official address
EMAIL ADDRESS:
uknationallotteryagentclaims@yahoo.co.uk



UK LOTTERY


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