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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:
  • "fiduciary 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447040131458 (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.
  • davydmartee@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: EURO LOTTERY EURO LOTTERY <engdavidmartins007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <davydmartee@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:16:42 -0400
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION, CONGRATULATIONS









United Kingdom National Lottery,2 Lansdowne Row,Berkeley Square,London, W1J 6H,United Kingdom. Daily Draw results:http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnational.aspRef: BTL/491OXI/04Batch: 12/25/0304 NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING!! We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY, online British National Lottery program held on 24th May,2007.Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number: 8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the Winning umbers:03,11,13,18,26,31 (bonus no.35),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 3 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000.00 (One Million pound Sterling) in cash credited to your file.
This is from a tota! l cash prize of £20,350,000.00,shared amongst the Winners with different amount won in this category i.e Match 3 plus bonus.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 corporatebodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.Your lucky winning number falls w! ithin our European booklet repre!sentative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £1,000,000.00 (One Million pound Sterling) will 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 her.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 ourFiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.*******************************************************************Barrister DAVID MARTINS.FIDUCIARY AGENT, Payment and Release orderDepartment,UK NATIOANL CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.OCEANIC BT, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOMEmail: davydmartee@yahoo.com Tel:+44-7040-1314-58Tel:+44-7031-906965 *******************************************************************Endeavour to email them the following informations for immediate processing,verification and legalization of claims inorder for payment to be made to you asrequired, inaccordance with our payout policy. Full! Name:Telephone:Mobile: Amount Won: REF NUMBER:.BATCH NUMBER:WINNING NUMBER:TICKET.NUMBER: Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE BRITISH(UK)NATIONAL LOTTERY.Yours faithfully sheera Van Der Kuipt (Mrs)Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Congratulation and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours sincerely,







Mrs. sheera Van Der Kuipt Mrs. Marie Angelo
(Co-ordinator). (Secretary-La Primitiva)



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