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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")
• 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.
  • +447011136365 (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.
  • claimspayerwinlotto@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY LONDON <rossewoo52@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <claimspayerwinlotto@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:26:19 +0000
Subject: YOU HAVE WON UKNATIONAL LOTTERY/ CONTACT BAR.DAVID GREEN FOR CLAIMS


National Lottery Commission,HarrogateH G1 2YR England.Ref : UK/776090X2/23Batch: 013/05/8394369Draw date:Saturday 9 June 2007National Draw:Further resultsWINNING DRAW NUMBER:2, 3, 23, 33, 40, 46 (bonus.30)Verify Your Winning Number: http://www.lottery.co.uk/res/=======================================================CHECK YOUR WINNING NUMBER: http://www.lottery.co.uk/checker/WINNING DRAW NUMBER:WINNING DRAW NUMBER:2, 3, 23, 33, 40, 46 (bonus.30)=======================================================WINNING NOTIFICATION:We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online UK National Lottery program held Saturday 9 June 2007 Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number:8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the Winning Numbers:WINNING DRAW NUMBER:2, 3, 23, 33, 40, 46 (bonus.30),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 3plus bonus.You are therefore been approved to claim total sum of £1,628,360.00 ( One Million Six Hundred And Twenty Eight Thousand Three Hundred And Sixty Million Pounds) in cash credited to file.This is from a total cash prize of £20,350,000.00 pounds,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 corporate bodies that are listed online.This promotion takes place weekly.Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.***********************************************************Barrister David Green.Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release orderDepartment,CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOMTel Phone: +44 701 113 6365E-mail:claimspayerwinlotto@yahoo.co.uk***********************************************************Endeavour to email him your full names,winning numbers,email address,telephone and fax numbers immediately.Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.Mrs. Rose Wood,Winning Department,CordinatorUK National Lottery.www.lottery.co.ukYOU HAVE WON UKNATIONAL LOTTERY/ CONTACT BAR.DAVID GREEN FOR CLAIMS
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