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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:
  • "tax clearance" (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. )
  • "clearance certificate" (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. )
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "transfer of your funds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447011133851 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447011149509 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712428331 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447014221039 (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.
  • inlandtaxrevenue01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: florin daniel <ktm2000ktm@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:36:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: IS A BAD JOKE



UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
(Customer Services)

Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual finaldraws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international
Lottery programs. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail
address emerged as one of two winners in the category \\"A\\" You are
therefore been approve to claim the sum of 1,000,000 (One Million
Pounds Sterling) with the information below:

contact him, please provide him with the following codes below:

Secret pin code x7pwyz2005
Serial number 5368/02
REF No: UK/9420X2/68
TICKET No: 56475600545188
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

To file for your claim fill the form below and send it to our payment
Parastatal:

Contact Person: Mr.Donald Wilson.
Telephone: +447011133851


E-mail:uklotterycustomercare02@yahoo.co




Claims Processed On Behalf Of WINNER

Congratulations on emerging as one of our lucky award winners! UK NATIONAL Lottery offers awards to Lucky owners of selected emails that came out in our Random Draws. You have therefore been approved to go ahead and claim your funds which amounts to £1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling). This sum is gathered from our Sponsors consisting of over 100,000 websites and association.

To get your funds transfered to you, we have processed your claims and the winning amount has been transfered to our payment bank for immediate transfer to you .Your funds have been adequately insured by an Insurance Firm here in the UK. With the context of this insurance, your funds are RESTRICTED from been tampered with by any other person till they are remitted to you.

What this simply means is, if by chance the transfer of the said FUNDS require charges, you are to source for and settle these charges yourself WITHOUT requesting such amount to be deducted from your funds here with us as, they have been adequately insured with the very best Insurance Policy around.

Please, contact our payment bank responsible for the transfer of your funds to you. To contact them, please make use of the following contact details:

Bank Name: CITI BANK
Account Officer:KEVIN KESSINGER.
Email: citibank@onlinefundstransfer.net
Email: citibank@onlinefundstransfer.net
Hot Line-For Emergencies call:
TEL: +44 701 1149 509
+44704 570 9769
FAX: +44 871242 8331
Mon-Sat 8am-6pm



NB:SEND ALONG SIDE YOUR EMAIL TO THE BANK YOUR VERIFICATION FORMS TO ENABLE THEM GET BACK TO YOU QUICKLY.

*Name of Beneficiary --------------

*Address: ---------

*City/State: -------------

*Nationality: -------

*Sex----------

*Email Address: ---------------

*Tel: -----------------

*Occupation: ------------------------

*Next of Kin: --------------

*Age: --------

*AMOUNT WON:
*In Figures: -----------

*Secret pin code -------------

* Serial number : -------------------

*Name and telephone Number of Fiduciary agent -----------------------

Thank You and once again, Congratulations!

Warm regards......,

Mr Donald Wilson.
Fiduciary Agent.

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Our Ref: MF/UK/CB-XX-02/08


The Directorate-General for Tax and Customs Policy revenue of the United Kingdom via its intelligence-monitoring network have discovered that the CITIBANK UNITED KINGDOM are about to remit some funds £1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling's) being proceeds of UK NATIONAL LOTTERY without the payment of Non residential tax being a Non UK resident.


Non residential tax is the sole responsibility of the beneficiary .Income taxes are from source generally include direct federal tax, communal taxes, as well as, most of the time, church tax. As in the case of income tax, cantonal tax rates vary to a fairly large extent depending on the locality.


Governmental tax scales for withholding tax and the corresponding regulations are available at the Government tax departments. The funds £1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling's) with other valuable documents backing your winnings are now on HOLD because we ( Tax Investigation Services ) noticed that you are not a British Citizen, so in this case, you will have to pay a Non residential tax fee before the transfer of your funds will be allowed out of the shore of this country.

Find below the contact information of the Ministry of finance:

CONTACT PERSON: Mr.Smith Johnson (Esq.)
EMAIL ADDRESS: inlandtaxrevenue01@yahoo.co.uk
PHONE NUMBER: + 447014221039


In accordance with United kingdom tax system of inland revenue ordination decree 1997 section 51 of United Kingdom tax legislation Law reviewed by Prime Minister Tony Blair and Former State Secretary Helen Clarke of the Ministry of Finance, Revision of Tax 1999 . I wish to bring to the notice of the governing board of the CITIBANK UNITED KINGDOM the consequence of remitting of such huge amount of money outside the shores of this country (The United kingdom) without complying fully with the provision of the financial regulations and directives contained in section 51 of 1997 decree act which stipulates that for any amount ranging from One million pounds sterling's (£1,000,000) above the recipient must pay 0.05% of the total funds accordingly. This will duly guarantee and cover the money as being legitimately acquired from the United kingdom National Lottery.


By virtue of the powers conferred on us as the accredited board of Directorate-General for Tax and Customs Policy revenue of the United Kingdom and laundering agency in the United Kingdom solely responsible for issuing the certified Non residential tax clearance certificate on foreign transfer compensation and remittance.


We therefore wish to clarify to the CITIBANK UNITED KINGDOM and the Ministry of Justice that the beneficiary of this fund must be advised to seek appropriate Non residential tax clearance certificate upon the payment of the rights of 0.05% of the total fund being transferred otherwise the money will be impounded as laundered.


The fee for such clearance has been calculated inclusive of VAT to be 0.05% of (£1,000,000) which amount to £500 (Five Hundred Pounds Sterling's only) for immediate conclusion for all relevant bureaucratic procedures, accreditations, the payment must be made henceforth through our accredited account officer co-ordinates.


Failure by the beneficiary to abide to the lay down procedures and regulations, the remittance of the fund must be stopped with immediate effect. Therefore, the CITIBANK UNITED KINGDOM is hereby directed to stop further payment modalities of the above-mentioned beneficiary until a TAX CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE is issued for the transfer of the said funds.


Thanks in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours Sincerely,Mr. Stephen Timms (Esq.)
Director
MINISTRY OF FINANCE







The Directorate-General for Tax and Customs PolicyMajor Companies/Individuals Tax Unit
Buckingham Palace, London SW1A 1AA



Our Ref: MF/UK/CB-XX-02/08
RE: Procurement of Non residential tax Certificate.




You are to make payment to this office via our account officer.The preferred and fastest method of payment is through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER. Locate any outlet near you and make the payment.

Immediately we confirm the receipt of the payment, your Non residential Tax Clearance Certificate will be processed and given to you in less than 24 hrs from the time of receipt of payment which you will inturn forward to the CITI BANK to enable the transfer process of your funds be completed.

The fee for the Certificate as earlier said is 0.05% of your funds which is 500 GBP.

To make payment find below the payment guildlines which should be made through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER to our account officer:

RECEIVER'S NAME: MR.TONY ADAMS.
RECEIVER'S ADDRESS: Buckingham Palace, London SW1A
AMOUNT SENT:

As soon as you have made the payment, kindly send to us via email the scanned payment slip.
Also write through email the following which is on your slip:

Sender's Name:
Amount Sent:
MTCN:
Test question and answer if any:

Immediately we confirm the receipt of this, your Non residential tax clearance certificate will be prepared and given to you for you to go ahead and claim your funds.

Note:The charges cannot be Deducted from your winnings.This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the National Gambling Act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly.This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds and win and win Situations.


Failure by you to abide to the lay down procedures and regulations, the remittance of the fund would be stopped with immediate effect. Therefore, the CITIBANK UNITED KINGDOM where hereby directed to stop further payment modalities of the above-mentioned until a TAX CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE is issued for the transfer of the said Funds.

Thanks in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Smith Johnson (Esq.) MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT




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