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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "euro-afro-american-sweepstake lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• 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 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.
  • +447031847134 (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.
  • uk2officelottery@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: zonal consultant <zonal_consultant_138@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:48:58 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS WINNING NOTIFICATION FROM UNITED KINGDOM





Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery
Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton Nottingham shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex, United Kingdom

CONGRATULATIONS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Batch: 14/211/0374 Ref: BTL/311OXI/02

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the British lottery programs held in London, Your e-mail address attached, to ticket number: 694 75600545 721 with Serial number: 886/04 drew the lucky numbers:01-6-2-13-35-17, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £820,000,00.( Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand
British Pounds ) in cash credited to file RPC/9080115322/44.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever of British Lottery, The estimated 125 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history.The biggest was the 363 million pounds jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big Game, Mega Millions' predecessor. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £820,000,00.( Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand British Pounds)would be released to you by our affiliated bank in UK.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with himAll participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.This promotion takes place annually
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the bew details for processing of your claims and call him on phone mediatly you recieve this email.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims and call him on phone immediatly
youemail.
AGENT: JIMMY BROWN.
Email : uk2officelottery@yahoo.co.uk
United Kingdom Zonal Co-coordinator.Tel+44-703 184-7134
Tel+44-703 184-3022

Call him on phone immedialty you recieve this mail so that he secure your file and give you the procedure on how the fund will be remited into your account.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Note:the details of your claim must be kept confidential until the redemption of your prize to avoid complications in your claim.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this programme.Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery
programme.
Sincerely,


Mrs. Teresa Allan.Online Co-ordinatorTHE NATIONAL LOTTERY :
Sweepstakes International Program United Kingdom.

Copyright © 1994-2007. The National Lottery Inc.All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelin






Copyright © 1994-2007 The British National Lottery Inc.All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline



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