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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")
  • "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 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.
  • andreawallace01@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FLC Email Promo" <jmesser@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Reply-To: andreawallace01@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:35:40 -0400
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

[HTML GRAPHICS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR SECURITY REASONS]


FLC® LOTTERY PROGRAM,
Corporate Communications
6910-50th Avenue
Yorkshire HX1 2SF
London, United Kingdom

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just
concluded annual final draws of The Freelotto UK Lottery
programs. The online cyber lotto draws were conducted from an
exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold. Your
email address attached to Reference Number: FLC/DOL/02 and
Batch Number: FLC/EU/1/UK, won in the 2nd category of winnings.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£925,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND POUND
STERLING). Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail
address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our
requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations
and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are
advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for
the release of your prize with the following information:

FLC Claims Department
Fiduciary Agent: Andrea Wallace
Email: andreawallace01@hotmail.com

Please also note Your reference and batch numbers and state
them in every correspondence:
Ref No: FLC/DOL/02
Batch No: FLC/EU/1/UK

Congratulations!

Sincerely,
Management and Promo Team
FLC UK


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Notification. © 2008 FLC® Lottery Program. All Rights Reserved.

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