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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• 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 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.
  • uknational_claim@yahoo.com.hk

Fraud email example:

From: The National Lottery <uk-lotto-draws@web.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:25:23 +0100
Subject: it's an est. 18 million pound EuroMillions Rollover



(National Lottery Update)


(It's a EuroMillions Rollover) THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 287 WATFORD,
WD18 9TT UNITED KINGDOM(Customer Services) PHONE: 44 700-594-7524 WINNING NOTICE
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programmes. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 10,000 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 two winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:
REF No: UKNL-EGS/2251256003/02
BATCH No: 14/0017/1PD
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 13 - 17 - 39 - 46 - 47 - 49 - 48 Bonus ball You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of £1,000,000.000 Pounds (One Million Pounds Only) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below:To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent,
MR RAYMOND PEARCEEmail: uknational_claim@yahoo.com.hk [mailto:uknational_claim@yahoo.com.hk].For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim
is processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of UKNATIONAL LOTTERY Co-operation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery programme. Kind RegardsPublic Relation Officer.


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