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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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!
• 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.
  • k_green_agent@yahoo.de
  • k_green_agent01@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CPolk37276@aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:37:42 EST
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:


From: _k_green_agent@yahoo.de_ (mailto:k_green_agent@yahoo.de)
Reply To: _k_green_agent01@yahoo.dk_ (mailto:k_green_agent01@yahoo.dk)
UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY Headquarters:
Customer Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
# 13 Beach Pkw,Princess Dolly Carlin Towers
Manchester,United Kingdom.

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY International
programs held on the (16th of November, 2007) in MANCHESTER, UK.Youre-mail
address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number:5368/02
drew the lucky numbers:19-6-26-17-35-7, which subsequently won you the
lottery
in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
US$00,000.00 Us Dollars ( Five Hundred Thousand Us Dollars) in cash credited
to file ktu/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of US $ Five
MILLION
USD ,shared among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies websites.This
promotion takes place annually, Please note that your lucky winning category
# :two(2) falls within our West African booklet representative office
in Africa
from the five kletreps. (london,sydney,seoul,lagos,athlanta) as indicated in
your play coupon.

In view of this, your US$ 500,000.00 Us Dollars ( Five Hundred Thousand Us
Dollars) would be released to you by our payment office in europe. Our
European
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate there lease of your
funds as soon as you contact her. For security reasons,you are advised to
keep
your winning information confidential till your claims is rocessed and your
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
prize.This
is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our fudiciary agent in charge of
category two(2) winners:

Mr Kelvin Green
Email: k_green_agent01@yahoo.dk

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
fullnames,your
country, your private telephone and fax number,your reference/batch
numbers etc
in any correspondences with us or ourdesignated agent.Please do fill this
form
for more verifications

PERSONAL DATA
FULL NAMES:
GENDER:
DATE OF BIRTH:
NATIONALITY:
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:
MARITAL STATUS:
HOME ADDRESS:
OFFICE ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
POSITION HELD:
TICKET NUMBER:
EMAIL ADDRESS:

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

Sincerely,
SHERRY WILLIAMS.
UK Online Web Lottery Co-ordinator

The Free lottery promo Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel roup,Toshiba,Dell Computers, Mckintosh and
aconglomeration of other international IT companies. The Free lottery
internet
draw is held quarterly every year and is so organized to encourage the use of
the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say thatover 200
Million
Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

We also encourage you to visit our websiteatwww.freelotto. com and take your
chance to play and become part of our daily winners.Millions are won
on a daily
basis on one of the world's most famous The Free lottery Promo.

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