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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "you are required to pay " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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!
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • +447024075281 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Harrison Finchley <drharrison_dept@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:36:49 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ATTENTION



WELCOME TO SEA-GATE FINANCIAL TRUST FUNDS.
AN AFFILIATE OF THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
HEAD OFFICE: NEW 315 OLD THAMBU CHETTY STREET,
SLOUGH BERKSHIRE SL1 3XT LONDON ,UK
Tel:+44-7024075281
Tel:+44-7011152801

Our Ref#: ZLX/CZEL/175
Your Ref #: RDSL/OBL/I3-X6/11

Attn Brunhild Krueglich


This is an official message from the Seagate security company,we are in receipt of your mail and we clearly understood the contents.

Following the contents of your mail we wish to make you understand that some fiduciary agent go about collecting money from winners and at the end of the day the find difficulties in transfering winning funds to them hence the Uk national lottery contracted the Seagate security company to ensure that everydealings with winners are properly handled with legal securities.

We wish to express our apologies for what happened to you and we are assuring you that our security firm will handle everything that has to do with your claiming you won funds.

The contents of our previous mail to you is to educate you about the different modes of cliaming your winning funds either by bank to bank or wire or by special delivery system by the courier services ,you are expected to choose the most convinient for you .

Yoy are to read through the options again and make payments via wester union to our office with the name and address of our accountant who will receive payments from you and pay for the cost of transfering your funds either by bank or by courier services.
TRANSFER OPTION.

1 . USING Lloyds BANK TO TRANSFER WINNING FUNDS.



Transferring of winning funds via Lloyds Bank, Lloyds Bank is the Bank responsible for the transfer of your winnings funds if you will be using BANK TO BANK ONLINE TRANSFER to get your winnings transfer. this Banks is regulated by the (FSA) , in the process of transferring your winning funds you are required to pay for the cost of transfer which will enable the transfer to be effected.

COST OF TRANSFER:You are required to pay the sum of £ 1,050 (POUNDS) as cost of transfer (C.O.T).

Transfer Charges............£ 900
Vat.......................................£ 150

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Total....................£ 1,050 (POUNDS)

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2.USING UPS DELIVERY COURIER SERVICE.

Shipment of your winning check via UPS DELIVERY SERVICE .The UPS delivery service is affiliated to the Lottery programme on the basic fact that if winner cannot meet with the transferring cost of the Bank they can use the UPS delivery service to transfer/ship their winning check to them. cost of delivery using UPS

DELIVERY SERVICE is £ 560 (POUNDS)

Mailing Charges.....................£ 350
Insurance..................................£ 120
Vat..............................................£ 90


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Total.....................£ 560 (POUNDS)

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Western union informations that you need to make payment


Name.Aaron Robertson
Address.NEW 315 OLD THAMBU CHETTY STREET, SLOUGH BERKSHIRE SL1 3XT LONDON ,UK

As soon as payment is made you are expected to send the informations to this office for immediate actions to be taken.

Regards,
Mr Harrison Finchley.
Funds Release/Transfer Manager.


**SEA-GATE FINANCIAL TRUST FUNDS , Registered in England No 929027. Registered Office: 135 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3UR.Regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

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