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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!
• 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.
  • watersonlinedep@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Uk Online Lottery" <uklottery8@core.com>
Reply-To: watersonlinedep@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:27:21 -0400
Subject: Email Notice


<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="553" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" colspan="5"><strong><img alt="The National Lottery" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/clickthru/privacypolicy/htmlemail_privacy_top.gif" /></strong></td></tr><tr><td width="2" bgcolor="#000099"></td><td width="10"><strong><img height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" width="10" /></strong></td><td class="normal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" width="530"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1"><div><strong>Dear Winner,                                                                              Your ref: 6525/07</strong></div><div><br /><strong>The National Lottery is pleased to inform you that you emerged a winner of £950,000.00 GBP  in the last concluded National Lottery online draws on 7th July,2007.<br />However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to <br />different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. After this automated <br />computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of ten winners in the FIRST category for the THIRD prize. </strong></div><div><strong>Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be <br />transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, <br />verifications,validations and satisfactory report.</strong></div><div><strong>Fill in the information below and send it to the Lottery Fiduciary agent with the following email address.</strong><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Name:Terry Waters<br />E-mail Address: </strong></font><a href="mailto:watersonlinedep@yahoo.co.uk" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0000ff"><u><strong><span id="lw_1183882485_2" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><span id="lw_1183886988_0" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%">watersonlinedep@yahoo.co.uk</span></span></strong></u></font></a></div><div> </div><div><strong>1.First Name:<br />2.Last Name:<br />3.Your Ref:<br />4.Address:<br />5.Country:</strong></div><div><strong>6.Telephone:<br />7.Occupation:<br />8.Age:</strong></div><div><br /><strong>Congratulations.</strong></div><div></div><div><strong><u>Online Co-ordinator.</u></strong></div><div><strong><u>The UK Online Lottery</u></strong></div></font></td><td width="9"><strong><img height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" width="9" /></strong></td><td width="2" bgcolor="#000099"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="5"><strong><img src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/clickthru/privacypolicy/htmlemail_privacy_bottom.gif" /></strong></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" height="30"><strong><img height="30" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" width="1" /></strong></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="553" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="2"></td><td width="10"><strong><img height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" width="10" /></strong></td><td class="normal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" width="530"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="1"><br /><strong>Players must be 16 or over. Terms and Conditions, Games Rules and Procedures apply. <br /><br />Camelot Group plc Registered Office: Tolpits Lane, </strong><span id="lw_1178237451_4" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em"><strong><span id="lw_1183882485_4" style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em"><span id="lw_1183886988_1" style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Watford, Herts, WD18 9RN</span></span></strong></span><strong> <br />Registered in England and </strong><span id="lw_1178237451_5" style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em"><strong><span id="lw_1183882485_5" style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em"><span id="lw_1183886988_2" style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Wales</span></span></strong></span><strong> No. 2822203</strong></font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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