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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • claims_agent_coleman@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dr Helen Smith <drhelensmith1@web.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:20:07 +0100
Subject: Congratulations!!! Ref: UK/2007X2/50




The National Lottery
Headquarters
Customer Service
28 Tanfield Road,
Croydon, London

Ref: UK/2007X2/50
Batch: 2007/02/AY360

WINNING NOTIFICATION
Congratulations! You have just won £850,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS) in the satellite online email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by computer balloting software, powered by the Internet through the world wide web. Your email address was amongst those chosen for this period. This online lotto promo is proudly sponsored by the THE NATIONAL LOTTERY programme.

All participants' email addresses for the online version were selected randomly from the internet, through computer draw system, that were extracted from over 100,000 websites of unions, associations, corporate bodies and individual websites that are listed online. This promotion takes place on a regular basis. Please you are advised to contact your claims agent with your reference number and batch number, this is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be adviced.

To claim your prize, please contact The National Lottery Fiduciary Agent with your details as stated below:

FIDUCIARY AGENT(Overseas Claims Unit): Mr Brian Coleman
EMAIL : claims_agent_coleman@yahoo.co.uk [mailto:claims_agent_coleman@yahoo.co.uk]

Please present your Payment Processing details as follows to him:
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11. Reference Number:
12. Batch Number:
13. Amount Won:

Yours faithfully,
Dr Helen Smith(Ms)
Online Coordinator.




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