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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:

• 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 us 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)
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
• 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.
  • gred_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: SHERRY WILLAM <info@indept@co.uk>
Reply-To: gerd_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 12 Mar 2008 02:45:25 +0900
Subject: CLAIM YOUR WINNING /UK LOTTERY

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




<DIV>

<P><IMG alt="" hspace=0

src="http://www.whi.org.uk/uploads/pictures/AX303/Lottery-funded-BIG-logo-200.gif

" align=baseline border=0></P>

<FONT SIZE=2><font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">

<br>UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY Headquarters:

<br>Customer Service

<br>Ref: UK/9420X2/68

<br>Batch: 074/05/ZY369

<br># 13 Beach Pkw,Princess Dolly Carlin Towers

<br>Manchester,United Kingdom.</br><p>

<font color="red"><b>WINNING NOTIFICATION</b></font>

<br>We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY

International programs held on the

<br>(10 of march, 2008) in MANCHESTER, UK.Your e-mail address attached

to ticket number: <br>56475600545188 with Serial

number:5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:19-6-26-17-35-7, which subsequently

<br>won you the lottery in the 2nd cartegory.You have therefore been

approved

to claim a total sum of <br>$2.5Million Us

Dollars ( Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Us Dollars) in cash credited to

file

<br>ktu/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of Twenty Five

MILLION USD ,shared among the <br>first Ten (10)

lucky winners in this category.</p>



All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through

computer draw system and

<br>extracted from over 100,000 companies websites.This promotion takes

place annually, Please note that

<br>your lucky winning cartegory # :two(2) falls within our West African

booklet representative office in

<br>Africa from the five kletreps. (london,sydney,seoul,lagos,atlanta) as

indicated in your play coupon.

<p>

In view of this, your 2.5Million Us Dollars ( Two Million Five Hundred

Thousand Us Dollars) would

<br>be released to you by our payment office in europe. Our European agent

will immediately commence the

<br>process to facilitate the lease of your funds as soon as you contact

her. For security reasons,

<br>you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your

claims is processed and your

<br>money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your

prize.This is part of our precautionary

<br>measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program

by some unscrupulous elements.

<p>Please be warned.



<br>To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent in charge of

category two(2) winners:



<br>Mr gred

<br>Email: gred_fiduciary_agent@yahoo.co.uk

<br>To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your full

names,your country, your private telephone

<br>and fax number,your reference/batch numbers etc in any correspondences

with us or our designated agent.

<br>Please do fill this form for more verifications<p>



PERSONAL DATA



<br>FULL NAMES:



<br>GENDER:



<br>DATE OF BIRTH:



<br>NATIONALITY:



<br>COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:



<br>MARITAL STATUS:



<br>HOME ADDRESS:



<br>OFFICE ADDRESS:



<br>TELEPHONE NUMBER:



<br>FAX NUMBER:



<br>OCCUPATION:



<br>POSITION HELD:



<br>TICKET NUMBER:



<br>EMAIL ADDRESS:

<p>

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

you for being part of our

<br>promotional lottery program.

<p>

Sincerely,</p>



<p>SHERRY WILLIAMS.

<br>UK Online Web Lottery Co-ordinator<p>



The Free lottery promo Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft

Corporation, the Intel troup,Toshiba,

<br>Dell Computers,Mckintosh and aconglomeration of other international IT

companies. The Free lottery

<br>internet draw is held quarterly every year and is so organized to

encourage the use of the internet and

<br>computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are

won annually in more than 150 countries

<br>worldwide.We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.

com and take your chance to play

<br>and become part of our daily winners.Millions are won on a daily basis

on one of the world's most famous

<br>The Free lottery Promo.<p>

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WARNING!!!

ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS SHOULD

BE FOWARDED TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY,<br> THIS WILL

HELP US TO FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED

CO-OPERATION.

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