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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "courier company" (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!
• 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.
  • lotteryclaimsagent1984@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • uknationallottery_agent1984@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UKNATIONAL LOTTERY UKNATIONAL <lotteryclaimsagent1984@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: uknationallottery_agent1984@yahoo.it
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:26:38 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY


DEAR

YOU ARE TO FILL YOUR INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE CLAIM OF YOUR WINNING PRIZE AFTER SENDING YOUR INFORMATION AM TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO NEXT ON HOW TO CONTACT THE COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR PRIZE

REGARD

MR JOHN SMITH

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIMS AGENT







The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
Customer Services
Ref: UK/9420X/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

FINAL NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you today that the
Wednesday 15 August 2007

about the result of the Winner of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY ONLINE
PROMO
PROGRAMME lucky numbers: 2 5 15 34 35
43 35 bonus
no.
Visit the Online Website for your Result
http://www.lottery.co.uk/res/

All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from
over 100 000 unions associations and corporate bodies
that are listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of =C3?=C2=A31 500 000
One Million five hundred pounds sterling in cash
credited to
file
KTU/9023118308/03. To file for your claim please
contact our claims
agent;

Mr . John Smith

Email:lotteryclaimsagent1984@yahoo.it

uknationallottery_agent1984@yahoo.it

Provide her with the informations below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10. mode of claims... DELIVERY BY COURIER
Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully

Richard K. Lloyd
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.







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