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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • ubnknig@ubnknig.cjb.net
  • dandouglas_chambers@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Daniel Onyeike" <danmuonyy266@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: danonyieke@galmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:05:00 -0500
Subject: YOUR GOOD NEWS!!!

             

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED & LICENSED.
SHELL WEB LOTTERY IS REGISTERED
UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT

(Registration No: Z720633X).

SHELL BP WEB LOTTERY

Customer Service.
PO Box 1010 Liverpool L70 1NL United Kingdom.

 

Dear winner,

                      Congratulation, you are a wonderful winner.

 

We happily bring to your notice the results of the U.K. International Lottery annual draw held on the 20th of January 2007 in London. The onlinelotto 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. Your e-mail address attached to the Batch N0:P2/0056 with Serial number: 07/1055 2007 [5] [11] [13] [17] [14] [48] [25], which subsequently won you a prize in the category ?B?.

 

You have therefore been approved to claim your hansome winning prize amount of USD$500,000.00 (Five Hundren Thousand United States Dollars)  Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African Fiduciary Agent booklet representative office ( UNION BANK NIG Plc) as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your USD$500,000.00 (Five Hundren Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our affiliate Forwarding service ( UNION BANK NIG Plc)

 

To know more details on how to receive your wonderful winning prize, Fill the Form below, copy it and contact immediately ( UNION BANK NIG Plc) our Fiduciary Agent in Africa.

 

Contact person : Mr.  Albert Udo

Head: Foreign Payment Dept
           Union Bank of Nig PLC
Addr:  Victoria Inland, Lagos - Nigeria
Tel:     +234 14357488
Email: ubnknig@ubnknig.cjb.net

Claims Form:

1.Name in full------------------------
2.Address------------------------------
3Nationality---------------------------
4.Age/Sex------------------------------
5.Occupation---------------------------
6.Phone/Fax----------------------------
7.Present Country--------------------
8.Batch No-------------------------

9.Serial number:
 

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!!!

 

Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 20th FEBRUARY, 2007. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.

 

***Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period of time may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

 

Sincerely,

Mr Daniel O. Douglas

Shell BP lottery Co-ordinator.
SHELL BP WEB LOTTERY

Tel: 44 7040125737

Email: dandouglas_chambers@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

 LAST WINNERS ON SHELL BP WEB LOTTERY.

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