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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.
  • +447094659694 (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.
  • claimsagent_dan@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <ukn.l24@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ukn_lottery45@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:08:18 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! REPLY ASAP.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Center
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue Conwy LL28 5AF United Kingdom
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: UKNL/26510460036/07
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

AWARD NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of winners of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY, THE UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 15th
January 2007 in London.Your email address was attached to ticket number
023-0148-790-459, with serial number 5063-11 and drew the lucky numbers
43-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently WON you the lottery in the 2nd
category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay Of L
500,000.00 British Pounds(GBP) in cash credited to file REF NO.
UKNL/26510460036/07 . This is from total prize money Of L 2,000,000.00
British Pounds(GBP) shared among the four International winners in this
category.All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website
through computer draw ballot system and extracted from over 1,345,256
personal email addresses as part of International Promotions Program, which
is conducted annually.In view of this, your L500,000.00 British Pounds(GBP)
would be released to you by our approved payment center in London.

The claims 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 winnings.This is part of
our precautionary measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program by some unscrupulous elements.Please be warned.To file for your
claim, please contact our claims agent.

Mr. DANIEL STEVENSON
#195 Edgware Road,London W2 1EY United Kingdom.
TEL: +447094659694
FAX: +447039400254
EMAIL: claimsagent_dan@yahoo.co.uk

For due processing and remittance of your prize winnings, please remember to
quote your Reference and Batch numbers in your Correspondences with the
agent.Remember, all prize winnings must be claimed not later than two weeks
from today.After this day,all fund will be returned as
unclaimed.Furthermore, should there be any Change of your address; do inform
the claims agent as soon as possible.Congratulations once again.

Sincerely,

Mrs Irene Bristow
Zonal Co-ordinator

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