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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • contactukclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY" <MSOLS01@prodigy.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:29:09 -0800
Subject: REF: UNL/26510460037/02; BATCH: 24/00319/IPD; TICKET NUMBER: 023-0148-790-459

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Centre
22 Notting Hill Gate, London
W11 3JE
United Kingdom
17th March, 2007

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
REF: UNL/26510460037/02
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam,

RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE
We happily announce to you the draw (#1020) of the UK
NATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program
held on Friday 16th, 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 023-
0148-790-459 with
Serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky numbers:

04 06 31 42 46 47
bonus ball 11


which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st
category i.e match 6.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £2,767,607.00
(two million,seven hundred and sixty seven
thousand,six hundred and seven pounds sterling) in
cash credited to file REF NO. UNL/26510460037/02.
This is from a total cash prize of £5,535,214.00
shared amongst the first
two (2) lucky winners in this category. Draw (#1020)
Jackpot £5,535,214.00

NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £s PER WINNER TOTAL
Match 6 2 £2,767,607 £5,535,214
Match 5 plus bonus 7 £243,306 £1,703,142
Match 5 381 £2,793 £1,064,133
Match 4 26475 £88 £2,329,800
Match 3 561913 £10 £5,619,130

Additional Information
Jackpot winner(s) 2 Machine used for draw MOONSTONE
Winners by Lucky Dip 216277 Ball set used 7
All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are
listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your
play coupon.In view of
this, your £2,767,607.00 (two million,seven hundred
and sixty seven thousand,six hundred and seven pounds
sterling ),would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe.
Our European 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 claim 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.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent;

Mr. Robert Clark
Email: contactukclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk


For due processing and remittance of your prize
money, please remember to quote your
reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later
than 31st March, 2007. After this date, all funds will
be returned as unclaimed.
Furthermore, should there be any
change of your address,do inform your claims agent
as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank
you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
William Ward Bowman
Zonal Co-ordinator
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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