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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "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 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.
  • +447024061930 (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.
  • attorney_iankirk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • ukqueenslottery07@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dr.Mrs.Grace Edward. <ukqueenslottery07@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: attorney_iankirk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 1 Aug 2007 12:12:29 -0000
Subject: your chance to make with me.

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




UK QUEEN'S LOTTERY.

44 STRAND STREET,

LONDON,

WC2R 2LS,

ENGLAND.



FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT.

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.



REF NO/UKQL/95083109/ELC/07

BATCH NO: 8725-49

WINNING NOTIFICATION.



Sir/Madam,



We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual

final draws held on june 28,2007 Winning Notification Promotion, in which your e-mail address was among the 20 Lucky winners.

The results were released on July 28, 2007 and your e-mail was attached to ticket number (UKQL48-15-356-089) with serial number 8725-49 which drew the lucky numbers 7 15 38 42 44 5 which consequently won the lottery. You have therefore been approved a lump sum payout of 615,810.00 (SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN UK POUNDS ONLY) in cash credited to file with REF.NO/UKQL/95083109/ELC/07

This is from a total cash prize of 10,468,770 (TEN MILLION, FOUR

HUNDRED AND SIXTY- EIGHT THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY UK POUNDS ONLY) shared among 17 (Seventeen) world-wide winners in this category.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of e-mail addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated

random computer search from the internet.

Winner is to bear in mind that no tickets were sold but all e-mail addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized e-mail selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 980,000 e-mail addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

This Promotion is approved by the United Kingdom Gaming Board and also

Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators

(IAGR). This Promotion is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public to encourage tourism in our country.

To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent, Attorney Ian Kirk, on TEL: +44-702 406 1930. EMAIL: attorney_iankirk@yahoo.co.uk or ukqueenslottery07@yahoo.co.uk for the processing and payment of your winning prize money. Note, all prize money must be claimed not later than August 28, 2007. However, you will have to fill the form below and send it to the agent for verification.



NAME:.....................................

AGE:.......................................

SEX:........................................

ADDRESS:...............................

E-MAIL:....................................

PHONE:...................................

OCCUPATION:.........................

COMPANY:..............................

COUNTRY:...............................



Warnning: Keep all your promotion winning information away from the

general public especially your ticket number and ballot number. This

is important as case of double claims will not be entertained.



CONGRATULATIONS!



Yours faithfully,

Dr. Mrs. Grace Edward.

Promotion Co-ordinator.

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