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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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.
  • +447031981984 (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.
  • lottsclaims07@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "The Camelot Group," <kmshiel@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Reply-To: lottsclaims07@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:43 -0400
Subject: REFNo:UKL/74-A0802742007

The Camelot Group,
operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD


WINNING NOTIFICATION

The Camelot Group,organisers of National Lottery online draw
wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address
ballot lottery international program held on 21th May 2008.Your
email account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay
total of £ 1,23O,310 ( One Million Two Hundred and Thirty
Thousand Three Hundred and Ten Pounds Sterling ) This is from a
total cash prize of £GBP 4,459,670.00 shared amongst the ( 5 )
lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus.

All participants for this online version were selected randomly
from World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn
from over 100,000 names database, union associations,and
corporate bodies that are listed online.This prmotion takes
places. All winning must be claimed not later than 14 working
days from this notification. After this time all unclaimed
funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed.

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications,please remember to quote your reference number in
all correspondence.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until
your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you.
This is partofour security protocol to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program. Your winning details
are :- TicketNo:22-1356-4096-988,Serial N0:A069-07,Lucky N0:04-
33-34-38-39-49-(23 AS BONUSBALL), File REFNo:UKL/74-
A0802742007,BATCH N?.: 2007UKL-01

To Process and claim your prize, do contact our overseas
winners claim agent below for validation and funds release:

Mr: Phil herald.
Email:lottsclaims07@hotmail.co.uk
Tel:+447031981984



***IMPORTANT*** FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM
BELOW:Your application for the claim of lottery winning prize
will be duly processed and settlement made upon
certification.Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate
information in the space provided below for record purposes to
facilitate our immediate commencement of your claims process.
The completed form
should be sent to your claims agent for immediate commencement
of prize remittance

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
*************************************
1.FULLNAMES:________2.ADDRESS:__________3.CITY________4.STATEe__
_______5.POSTCODE______6.COUNTRY
7.SEX:_______8.AGE:________9.OCCUPATION:__________10.TELEPHONE
NUMBER:__________



Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for
being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
Mr.James Irvin.
Online Coordinator,
CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of The National Lottery.

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