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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:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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.
  • anto_ukloto@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UNL PROGRAMME" <categoryb_unclaimed2006@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: anto_ukloto@rediffmail.com
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:48:54 +0000
Subject: RE: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION MAIL FROM THE UK HEAD OFFICE

FROM THE DESK OF THE PRIZE DIRECTOR UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY CORPORATION (UNL)
Ground floor, willow court, the orchards
Ty-Glas Avenue, Lianishen
Cardiff CF.

Online Promotional Head office
Middlesex,
United Kingdom.

Ref: LUK/203/8161/04,
Batch: R3/A312-59.

19th July, 2007

Sir/Madam,



RE: FINAL NOTIFICATION OF WINNINGS

Good day! The Prize director/prize award department representing the UK
National Lottery Corporation of unclaimed fund wishes to inform you that On
July 18th. 2007 at approximately 11.45am, I tried contacting you, but
unfortunately was unable to get through to you. The main reason for
electronically mailing you this letter is to inform you of the reason for my
wanting to contact you.

We happily announce to you the draw (671) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International program held Wednesday, 18th July 2007. Your
E-mail address attached to randomly selected ticket number: 56475600545188
with Serial Number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 01-04-19-21-29-03, which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. Thunderball
Jackpot. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 250,000
(Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03. All 550 participants were initially selected by senior
staff/service agents from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system
and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies
that are listed online. But just two (2) persons were finally chosen to
claim the above stated sum. This promotion takes place weekly. So I am
mailing you officially to notify you of your winning stands.

Nevertheless, according to the federal and international law concerning the
personal collection of prize winnings, your bonding fees, broker fees, and
tariff fees, have already been deducted from your winnings.

For more information concerning your winnings and to file for your claim.
Please, contact our fiduciary agent for the UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY
PROGRAMME (UNL);
Mr. Anthony Kelvin: anto_ukloto@rediffmail.com

Provide him with the information below:
1. Full Names
2. Address
3. Occupation
4. Marital status
5. Age
6. Country (Present Location)
7. Nationality
8. Telephone and Fax numbers.

That way your winning certificate and all other relevant documents/paperwork
can be prepared for you. You would be required to show an instrument of
identification when cashing your cheque.i.e. drivers license or
international passport. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your winning
sum. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid, impersonation,
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications. Please,
remember to quote your reference and winning lottery numbers in every
correspondence with your agent. Furthermore, should there by any change of
your address, do contact your claim agent as soon as possible. You can go to
our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a
prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
http://www.lottery.merseyworld.com/

Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Best regards,
Raymond Desmond.
The prize director UK Lottery international promotions/prize award
department.

CC: William Camelot.
Online co-coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International
Program.

N.B: Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent
immediately. Please note that this program allows 16yrs and above only.

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