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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "headquater" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +447035901291 (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.
  • ukosalottoagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: National U.K Lotteries <ukosalottoagents@yahoo.dk>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 10:45:06 -0300
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Your E-mail has won your ( =A3100,000 ) !!! ?=

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUATERS

 

The National Lottery

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

17th May 2007.

BONUS WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1100) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Friday 23rd February, 2007.

Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number: 56154800945 618 with Serial number 20117/02 drew the lucky numbers: 01-19-30-32-42-46 (BONUS # 49), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category (match 5 Plus Bonus).

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £100,000 (One hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £700,000.00 shared amongst the (7) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn randomly from a pool of over 100,000 names of e-mail addresses drawn from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries.

We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.

In view of this, your £100,000 (One hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling) in cash will be released to you by our payment office in The UK. Our agents will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon they are contacted.

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 measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be advised.

To file for your claim, please fill the form below and contact our fiduciary agent, Mr. Williams Brown: (ukosalottoagent@yahoo.co.uk) phone: +447035901291 (9AM - 6PM GMT)

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Tom Green (Sir)

Online coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes Bonus International Program.

BENEFICIARY FIRST NAME......................

BENEFICIARY LAST NAME......................

NATIONALITY...................................

RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.........................

DATE OF BIRTH................................

SEX...............................................

TEL. NUMBER....................................

FAX NUMBER.....................................

EMAIL ADDRESS.................................

AMOUNT WON...................................

BATCH NUMBER..................................

REFERENCE N?..................................

OCCUPATION.....................................

MARITAL STATUS...............................

DECLARATION: I..........................................................HEREBY

DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. THAT MY CLAIMS AGENT SHALL ACT AS A FACILITATOR IN THE TRANSFER OF THE TOTAL FUND TO ME.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL. CONTACT OUR FUDICIARY AGENT TO FILE FOR YOUR CLAIM

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