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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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!

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <assigned005@live.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:07:30 -1100
Subject: END OF YEAR WINNER'S LIST RELEASED

REFERENCE NUMBER:Ref: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458

End of year Bonanza

We are pleased to inform you of our end of year Xmas Bonanza, Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email
address,with serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers 43-10-42-37-10-43(bonus no.),this lucky number subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
£743,437(SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE THOUSAND FOUR
HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash prize
of £7,434,370. shared amongst the (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants of this
online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from close to 125,000 unions,associations and corporate bodies listed online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in the United kingdom
as indicated in yourplay coupon. In view of this,your £743,437 (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED
AND THIRTY SEVEN POUNDS STERLING) would be released to you by any of our payment office in the United Kingdom.

Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as
youcontact him/her via electronic mail(email) or other options made available to you.

To file for your claim, please contact your claims agent;
Mr Darren Lloyds-FIDUCIARY AGENT
Email:assigned005@live.com


Provide him with the information 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:

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.

Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.


Yours Truly,
Sir Mark Dulle.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam