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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:
  • "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")
  • "barrister" (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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • +447045769500 (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.
  • info_onlineclaimsmanager@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <powcf@hamdard.net.pk>
Reply-To: info_onlineclaimsmanager@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:12:36 +0500
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION



Ref : UK/776090X2/23
Batch: 013/05/8394369
Daily Draw Further results
http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp
Draw date:25/10/2007
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
online program in collaboration with PEUGEOT AUTOMOBILE COMPANY held on
25th October 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number: 8603775966738 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the Winning Numbers:07,11,15,21,35,47,43
(bonus no.17), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category i.e match 3 plus bonus.
And a Peugeot 407 classic car....

You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $1,628,360.00
(One Million Six Hundred And Twenty Eight Thousand Three Hundred And
Sixty Million Unites State Dollars) in cash credited to file. This is
from a total cash prize of $20,350,000.00,and 20 brand new peugeot 407
classic cars shared amongst the Winners with different amount won in
this category i.e Match 3 plus bonus.All participants for the online
version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly.
Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet repre!
sentative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In
view of this, your $1,628,360.00 (One Million Six Hundred And Twenty
Eight Thousand Three Hundred And Sixty Million Unites State Dollars)
will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security
reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you through the
western union money transfer to any country of your choice.
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,Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for
VALIDATION.
*******************************************************************
Barrister Henry Gate.
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Department,OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.
TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Tel Phone:+44-704-576-9500
E-mail:info_onlineclaimsmanager@yahoo.co.uk
********************************************************************
Endeavour to email him your:
Full names:
winning numbers:
contact address:
email address:
telephone:
fax numbers:

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