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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (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.
  • +447045723653 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712538023 (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.
  • camelotprizeclaims_agent@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lottoaward@camelot.org
Reply-To: camelotclaims_agent@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:58:11 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE WON(891,934.00 pounds sterlings)



The Camelot Group,:
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
REF Nº: UKL/74-A0802742007
BATCH Nº: 2007UKL-09



AWARD NOTIFICATION FOR 2007

The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery
international program by Great Britain held on 26th of November, 2007.
Your email account have been picked as a winner
of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one thousand, nine
hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds
(£891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF NO. REF:
UKL/74-A0802742007. This is from total prize
money of GBP £4,459,670.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international
winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web through computer balloting system
drawn from over 100,000 names database, union associations and
corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion
is this year's United Kingdom National Lottery bonanza. The Camelot
Group, operators of the United Kingdom National
Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by
the The International Association of Gaming
Regulators (IAGR).

All winning must be claimed not later than 14 working days from this
notification. After this time all unclaimed funds
will be retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in
order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference number in all
correspondence.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and your money remitted to
you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.

To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent:

Mr Albert Gill.
Email: camelotprizeclaims_agent@yahoo.com.hk
Tel: +44-704 572 3653
Fax: +44-871 253 8023



He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money..


Note below your winning details:


Ticket Nº: 22-1356-4096-988
Serial Nº: A069-07
Lucky Nº: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17
File REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742007
BATCH Nº.: 2007UKL-09


Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,
CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of The National Lottery.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will
result to disqualification.

NOTE: Do not reply this mail. You are to contact your claims officer
immediately. In order to avoid unnecessary delays
and complications, please remember to quote your reference number in
every one of your correspondences.


*IMPORTANT* FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:

Your application for the claim of lottery winning prize will be duly
processed and settlement made upon certification.

Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate information in the space
provided below for record purposes to facilitate our
immediate commencement of your claims process. The completed form
should be sent to your claims agent for immediate
commencement of prize remittance.


*Name of Beneficiary:
*Address:
*City/State:
*Nationality:
*Sex:
*Email Address:
*Tel:
*Occupation:
*Next of Kin:
*Age:
*AMOUNT WON:
*In Figures:
*In Words:
*Lucky Nos:
*Ticket No:


OFFICE USE ONLY
Verified by:________________

Confirmed by: ________________

CLAIMS AGENTS SIGNATURE:________________

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