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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:
  • "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.
  • donaldmorris_ukclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "uk national lottery" <unlclaimsdept01@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:09:53 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

UK-LOTTO Headquarters:
United Kingdom

WINNING NOTICE
We happily announce to you the draw (# 0234) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday, 17th of March
2007 in MANCHESTER UNITED-KINGDOM.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: UK/000056389 with Serial
number 4398/05 drew the lucky numbers :( 12, 13, 25, 30,45and 47) and the
bonus number (42). You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£650,412.00 (Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Four Hundred and Twelve British
pounds sterling) in cash. This is from a total cash prize of £1,951,236.00
shared amongst the three (3) lucky winners in this category. All
participants for this 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
international promotion is proudly sponsored by Yahoo! Inc. to encourage the
use of the Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over
200 Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide

To file for your claim, contact our claims agent below with the following
information.

Mr. Donald Morris
E-mail: donaldmorris_ukclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk

Full Name.......... Contact Address............ Nationality..........
Sex.......... Age................. Tel/Fax Number........................
Next of Kin..................

Please note the following:
1. All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
2. Your Reference number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3. Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
4. Please do not reply to this email. Contact your claims agent.

Congratulations once again from all members and staff of this program and
thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Yours faithfully,
Rita Stove
Online coordinator

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