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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)
  • "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 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.
  • +447094659694 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • claimsagent_dan@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY," <uk.nl33@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: claimsagent_dan@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:04:09 -0700
Subject: YOU HAVE WON THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Center
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue Conwy LL28 5AF United Kingdom
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: UKNL/26510460037/07
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

AWARD NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, THE UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS held on 21th MARCH 2007 in London.
Your email address was attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with
serial number 5063-11 and drew the lucky numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43, and
consequently WON you the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay Of £ 500,000.00 British
Pounds(GBP) in cash credited to file REF NO. UKNL/26510460037/07. This is
from total prize money Of £ 2,000,000.00 British Pounds(GBP) shared among
the four International winners in this category.All participants were
selected randomly from World
Wide Website through computer draw ballot system and extracted
from over 1,345,256 personal email addresses as part of International
Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.In view of this, your £
500,000.00 British Pounds(GBP) would be released to you by our approved
payment center in London.The claims 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 claims is processed
and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you
deem fit to claim your prize winnings.This is part of our precautionary
measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
some unscrupulous elements.Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent:
Mr. DANIEL STEVENSON
#195 Edgware Road,London W2 1EY United Kingdom.
TEL: +447094659694
FAX: +447039400254
EMAIL: claimsagent_dan@yahoo.co.uk
For due processing and remittance of your prize winnings, please remember to
quote your Reference and Batch numbers in your
Correspondences with the agent.Remember, all prize winnings must be claimed
not later than two weeks from today.After this day,all funds
will be returned as unclaimed.Furthermore, should there be any
Change of your address; do inform the claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again.
Sincerely,
Mrs Irene Bristow
Zonal Co-ordinator

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