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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:

• 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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: lottery ukinternational <board_secretary@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:37:47 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION "CONGRATULATION"



THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERYP O BOX 1010LIVERPOOL, L70 1NLUNITED KINGDOMREF NUMBER: HL/05/37504327/ES.TICKET NUMBER: SM/2774/35/98.AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATIONAttn: Winner,We
are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the email
lottery programmed draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY held on the
13th(SATURDAY) of MAY 2007. All 10 winning addresses were randomly
selected from a batch of 5,000.00 international emails, your email
address emerged along side with 9 others as a category 10 winners in
this year's UK NATIONAL LOTTERY award Draw.Most
recently the foundation set up the NEW HOPE LOTTERY to give out prizes
based on the computer ballot system (THEREFORE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A
TICKET TO ENTER FOR IT.YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED AS A
WINNER).Consequently,
you have therefore been approved a MEGA JACK POT of (€1,000,000.00 (ONE
MILLION EUROS) only. The following particulars are attached to your
lotto payment order:(i) Result winning numbers: 4-10-20-23-46-48-30-7(ii) Email ticket number: SM/2774/35/98(iii) Lotto code number: ZPD82649PK(iv) The file Ref number: HL/05/37504327/ESPlease note that your lucky winning number falls within our UK -booklet claims office in the (UK)To begin your claim kindly contact our claiming agent in the (UK)NAME: Dr. Gilbert Coleman.E-MAIL: cordinator_lotto_uk1@yahoo.co.ukThe
above claim agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of
your prize money to you. If you do not contact and process your winning
prize, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Reply to the above
contacts.N.B: Procedures to claiming your prize:1. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.2. Indicate your Full Name, Address, Country, Telephone, Mobile, Fax Number, Occupation and Age.3. Your identification document (International passport or any prove of identity)Furthermore, should there be any change of address do Inform the CLAIMAGENT as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff.Once again on behalf of all our staff CONGRATULATIONS!!!Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.Sincerely,MR BOB.K.DAVIDSLOTTERY SECRETARYThis
email may contain confidential and/or privileged information, which is
strictly intended solely for the use of the person(s) with the intended
recipient e-mail address as already filed. Do visit the web for our
online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a
prize breakdown: -www.national-lottery.co.uk

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