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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")
• 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.
  • +447040122134 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: forex signal system <simple_signalsystem.forex@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:56:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: plz tell me if this is true



UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one
of our winniers of the UNITEDKINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international
Lottery programs. held on the 9th of Febuary, 2007.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 three
winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000
(One
million pounds sterling).

REF No: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 56475600545188
SERIAL No: S/N-5368/02
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Name:Mr.Alex David
TEL:+44 704 0122134
Fax:+44 707 5055420
Official Email:agentdavid2006@msn.com

Do fill out the claims form in other to process the claims of your
prize without delay.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM

NAME:
AGE:
SEX:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL:
PHONE:
OCCUPATION:
COMPANY:
COUNTRY:
AMOUNT WON:

Yours faithfully,
Anderson Smith(Mr.)
Online coordinator for The Uk National Lottery
Sweepstakes International Program.

plz tell me if this can be true

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