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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million 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)
  • ",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)
  • "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)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • mackluis20120@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lotto management <u.kingdom0038@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mack_luis20120@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:38:11 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !! CONTACT MR MACK LUIS NOW



MSN UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION INTERNET PROMOTION, AOL, HOTMAIL & YAHOO ENDORSED REGISTERS {DIVIDEND & CLAIM DEPT} 8A Metropolitan Rd London , EC1M 5RJ. United Kingdom
Facsimile: 44 870 471 8792
Subject: INTERNET PROMOTION Ref Nº: IPP/242232/CTY/07 Status: $1,000,000.00 Batch Nº: JT/UK/030/022C
Notification: FINAL NOTICE Payment Nº: BILL-037
AWARD NOTIFICATION RESULT

ATTN: WINNER

We are pleased to inform you as a result of our end of the year international internet lottery promotion draw held on 21 December 2007 by computer ballot system. Your email address name attached to ballot number 3811 with serial number 23-VV drew the lucky number 11-24-38-22-23-32 which consequently won the draw in the 3rd category. Your email address name was among the (100) email addresses chosen to receive grand prize of US$1,000,000.00 (One Million Dollars only) each in this section.
These email addresses were chosen out of 25,000,000 individual email addresses selected all over the world from worldwide web sites search engines and chambers of commerce brochures for this computer draw You have been approved to receive this prize money credited to REF#: IPP/242232/CTY/07 attached to your email address name, this is from a total prize of US$250 Million shared among the 100 International winners in this category.

This promotion is sponsored by United Nation, National Lottery, Hotmail, Yahoo, corporate organizations and eminent personalities such as Bill Gates, to create awareness of internet benefits and computer literate for encouragement of equity and aid eradication of poverty worldwide. We hope with a part of your prize, you will utilize and educate others the importance of internet use.
Remember you neither participated physically in this computer ballot draw nor did you buy any ticket for this draw, your email name is lucky to be among the selected in this category, therefore claiming of prize are subjected to clearance process before payment .

To avert information leakage, prizes are secured with (secret codes) your payment secret code will be sent to your fiduciary clearance agent, is your duty to contact him now
Your won prize cannot be tampered until you received the whole approved money in your possession due to strict payment and insurance policy. After you received your prize money, we expect you to use some of the money to spread internet knowledge within your locality and remember to support our next promotion program.

Meanwhile, we have six clearance offices zoned continentally, CANADA, BRAZIL, SOUTH AFRICA, INDONESIA, LONDON & AUSTRALIA, clearance zones are picked randomly by computer, each winning number falls within any of the clearance zones, is the duty of the approved zonal clearance office to handle all clearance process to make sure bank releases won prize in time
Your prize number falls at Europe region approved clearance office in London United Kingdom, in view of this, your prize money will be released from London: your money has been deposited in bank with insurance coverage. Your clearance agent will facilitate payment process immediately you contact him


Due to the mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask you to keep this winning number secret from public notice until your prize money processed and remitted to you; this is part of our precautions to avoid double claiming prize and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by scammers

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

To file for your prize claim, contact the approved fiduciary agent with all these required information stated below
REF No
BATCH No
STATUS/AMOUNT
PAYMENT NUMBER
FULL NAME AGE
JOB
COUNTRY
LOCATION
PHONE/FAX NUMBERS
EMAIL ADDRESS

YOUR FIDUCIARY & CLEARANCE AGENT OFFICER AT
NO.8A Metropolitan Road London
TEL: : 0044 703 189 7315
TEL: 0044 703 183 3871 Email: mackluis20120@yahoo.co.uk
Comrade Mack Luis

Always quote your ref and batch numbers in every correspondence with your clearance agent
Sincerely yours Prof. Carl Allison (Chairman)
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Make sure you keep contact only with the approved clearance agent, any transaction you hold with other persons beside him is at your own risk, be aware that your paying authority will affect payment swiftly upon satisfactory report, verifications and validation provided by the clearance office prior payment in accordance with policy of organizers of this promotion. SIMPLY REPLY TO YOUR CLEARANCE AGENT
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