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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:

• 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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "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)
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +447934402338

Fraud email example:

From: Award Winning <awardwinning_mmj0@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:35:08 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:


INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT PREMIUM MEGA JACKPOT
LOTTERY, UNITED KINGDOM.
89 NEW FETTER LANE LONDON, EC4A 1AG U.K

REF NO: MSW/56B-67GH/L
BATCH: 4583JL/WIN
WINNING NOTIFICATION:

With pleasure The National Lottery, organizers of the UK National Lottery, Euro Millions, Daily Play, Thunder ball, Lotto Hot picks, and Lotto Extra announce to you the result of our draw (#1032) of the Premium Mega Jackpot in conjunction with UK Nationals online Sweepstakes International Program held on the 7th of March 2007 in London UK.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 12-13-25-30-45-47-42) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category.

3 eme batch/ the sum of an amount of £2,400,000.00 BPS

You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay out of ₤ £2,400,000.00 POUNDS ($4,790,245.53 USD) in cash credited to file REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 12-13-25-30-45-47-42, deposited with our Ansbacher Finance Group insured in your favour Due to the mix up of some numbers and mail addresses. This is from total prize money of £27,500,000.00 POUNDS, shared among the Twenty five (25) international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from 42,000 Names, 6,000 names from each continent, as part of International “E-MAIL" Promotions Program, for our prominent email sites ballot all over the world, and for the Continues use of E-mail.

Your funds have been insured with your REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 12-13-25-30-45-47-42. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem it 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 and most importantly for your own security to avoid situations like this reported on this news extract;

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15798589&method=full&siteid=94762&headli ne=eur--pound-77m-richer--name_page.html

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1721352005

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
Rev. Freddie Mac
Email: FreddieMac47@msn.com/claimoffice3@msn.com
Tel: +44 7934 402338
The UKNL Foundation, Claims department.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your Reference/batch numbers in any correspondence with our designated agent or us. Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.


Sincerely,
Mrs. Kimberly Derby
Online Coordinator for UK National Lottery
Sweepstakes International Program.


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