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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "keep it confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• 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.
  • +447624172620
• 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.
  • prizefiducial@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "tnluk01@terra.es" <tnluk01@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:31:29 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Your email ID was listed


The National Lottery
PO Box 1010,
Liverpool L70 1NL, United Kingdom.
Ref: TNLUK/2031/8161/04
Batch: R3/A312-59


WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#912) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY International Program held on Wednesday 1st November, 2006.
An e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers: 05,10,13,14,28,42,48 which subsequently won.
You are therefore the owner of the said email address and claim the said sum of £1,000,000 (One Million Great British Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer ballot system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. Please note that the lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in the play coupon and all prizes must be claimed on or before Wednesday 31st January, 2007.
as every unclaimed sum/prize after the above date will be returned to our Treasury as unclaimed prize, so you have to be in touch with the claims agent immediately to avoid your prize being returned to our Treasury.

To file for the claim, please contact our fiducial agent:
Name: John West
Of The National Lottery
Email: prizefiducial@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +44-762-4172620

You are to contact our fiducial agent with your full names, telephone number for further clarifications and instruction on how your prize will be claimed, remember always include your above reference and batch numbers in every correspondence for Identification purposes and keep the numbers with you as it will be required any time by the fiducial agent.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep this winning information confidential till the claims is perfected and duly processed and the money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim the prize. Please be warned, kindly keep it confidential for only myself, the Fiducial Agent and yourself knows what we are doing.
Good luck from me and members of staff of the U.K
The National Lottery.

Yours faithfully,
Preston Norman
Notification Agent
E-mail Lottery Department
The National Lottery.





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