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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "20 craven park, harlesden" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
  • "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")
• 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.
  • +447031843773 (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.
  • crmulderw@gmail.com
  • exposedwon@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Exposed Won <exposedwon71@y7mail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:09:22 +1100 (EST)
Subject: congratulations you are a winner ???


UK EXPOSED NATIONAL LOTTERY
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10,United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/07
Batch: 409978E

(Customer Services)
CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU ARE A WINNER. EXPOSED ONLINE WINNING NOTIFICATION,

Dear email address owner,

The draw of the EMAIL LOTTERY.Exposed online Sweepstakes International Program held on 7th February 2008, won you the Lottery in the JACKPOT Bonus. The amount you luckily won is yet to be claimed and you are getting the FINAL notification as regards this Email.Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning numbers: 5, 6, 17, 27,33,51, By our computer draw system, which subsequently won you the lottery in the Email Lottery (e-Lottery). Because your email was attached to our winning
numbers,

you are QUALIFIED as one of the draw winners. You have therefore been approved to claim:a total sum of ?1,666,667 (ONE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX THOUSAND,SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN Pounds Sterlings) in CASH credited to file number ; KTU/9023118308/03. and Draw Number:1080.01.The UK NATIONAL LOTTERY and theEURO MILLIONS,are the richest Lottery Agencies in the whole world.The total cash

prize was shared amongst (5) lucky winners in this category i.e Email Lottery (e-Lottery) All participants for the Email Lottery (e-Lottery) were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.)through our Email Lottery Draw System (E.L.D.S) and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

This Lottery programme is part of the Country's Programme to fund for the Olympic Games in 2012 (The 1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle).Other sums to be raised from the National Lottery would be from Ticket sales, Marketing, Sponsorship and the sale of Television rights.

Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) for this winning,your email was selected by our E.L.D.S.(e-Lottery) and only.Your ?1,666,667, will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe, Asian and Africa.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. Claiming your money is Easy and Safe.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and till your money is transferred to you in your country.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your claim, kindly contact our fiduciary agent with the information below:

FIDUCIARY AGENT

Name:Mr.creig mulder
Email:crmulderw@gmail.com
Tell:+447031843773

Complete the below form and summit it to the email
below :Email:exposedwon@gmail.com

( 1 ) YOUR FULL NAMES:
.................

( 2 ) YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:..............

( 3 ) YOUR
E-MAIL ADDRESS: .............

( 4 ) TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:.........

(
5 ) YOUR AGE:..................

( 6 ) YOUR COUNTRY: ................

(
7 ) LANGUAGE: .......................

( 8 ) YOUR OCCUPATION:
....................

( 9 ) HAVE YOU EVER WON A LOTTERY
BEFORE:..........

( 10 ) HOW DO YOU FEEL TO BE A WINNER:..........

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL
LOTTERY??

Yours faithfully,

Sincerely,
Ms. Lynda Richard.
Online coordinator
EMAIL LOTTERY
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY



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