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

Fraud email example:

From: The Irish Lottery <claimsagenthitcher@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 21 Mar 2007 18:24:28 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS...2007 IRISH LOTTERY WINNER

Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit



The Irish Lottery
47 Meadow Vale, Sligo, Ireland.
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05
Batch: R3/A312-59

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to announce to you the draw of the IRISH LOTTERY PROGRAMME online Sweepstakes International Program held on Saturday the 21th of March,2007.
Your e-mail address attached to the winning ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/05 drew the lucky numbers: 10,13,24,24,25,36,41,08 which subsequently won the JACKPOT. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of €950,000 GREAT BRISTIH POUNDS in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/05 of Irish Lottery.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a 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 €950,000 would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe(UK).

To file for your claim, you are to fill the form and conatct our authorised claim agent in the UK(Europe) on the details below:

The Irish Lottery
47 Meadow Vale,
Sligo
Ireland
Mr Smith Hitcher BY EMAIL
Email: claimsagenthitcher@yahoo.co.uk

1. Ticket number:....
2. Batch number:....
3. Serial number:....
4. Amount won:.....
5. FULL NAMES:....
6. DATE OF BIRTH:...
7. SEX:....
8. MARITAL STATUS:....
9. CONTACT ADDRESS:...
10.TELEPHONE NUMBER:....
11.OCCUPATION:....
12.ANNUAL INCOME;...
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Please you are to provide him with the above listed details as soon as possible so he can begin with the processing of your prize winnings.

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

Mrs. Veronica Blunt
THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS
KIA MOTORS LOTTERY DEPARTMENT
UNITED KINGDOM
NOTE: ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT TO YOUR AGENT.

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