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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (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 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.
  • +447092876829 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447031867850 (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.
  • uklottery_2008claimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uknationall2@gazeta.pl
Reply-To: web_nationallottery208@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:11:45 +0200
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?YOUR_EMAIL_HAS_WON_=A3534,848.00_LOTTERY_PRIZE?=


The National Lottery
P.O.Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL. United Kingdom
(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK

Attention: Email Account Holder,

Congratulations!! Congratulations!!
We happily announce to you the draw (#1270) of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,
online promotion International program held on Saturday 28th June 2008.

Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated
ticket number: *Z52204130 556* with reference number
*UK/5572CT-110P/08*and Serial number
*ZA5365/3* ,Batch number *XA87-2PY*,drew the lucky numbers: *
08-11-16-25-39-46* *Bonus 37*

This subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. matches 6
lucky numbers.

You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of *£534,848.00 (Five
Hundred And Thirty Four Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty Four British
Pounds)* in cash is credited to file *UKPC/90844308/08*. This is from a
total cash prize of *£15,225,186 .00* shared amongst the 633485 with (9)
lucky winners in "1st" category.

Prize Breakdown
------------------------------------------------------------
Draw 1270 Sat 28th June 08. 08-11-16-25-39-46 Bonus 37 . Jackpot for
this draw £4,813,632
------------------------------------------------------------
No of matches No of winners £s per winner Prize fund

Match 6 9 £534,848 £4,813,632

Match 5 plus Bonus 8 £185,139 £1,481,112

Match 5 674 £1,373 £925,402

Match 4 33542 £60 £2,012,520

Match 3 599252 £10 £5,992,520

Totals 633485 £15,225,186

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Additional information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for
draw Ball set used

9
220028 TOPAZ 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All World Wide Web valid email addresses used/participants for the online
email version were selected randomly via computer balloting from World Wide
Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies affiliated to the National
Lottery and are listed online.
This Online promotion takes place via virtual ticket Bi-annually.

Please note that you're lucky winning ticket file and number falls within
our European booklet representative office in Watford (UK) as indicated in
your ballot played coupon. In view of this, your £1,212,400.00 would be
released to you by our payment department.

Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery
prize.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever choice you want to claim your prize. Precautionary measure to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program are in place. Please
be warned!!!
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent and provide him
with your winning email details .remember to quote your reference numbers.
::::
*UK** Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Mr. Felix Hugo *

*Foreign Service Manager
Watford Regional Centre*

*Tolpits Lane, Trafford TD18 5RN .United Kingdom
Tel : + 44-703-186-7850
Fax : + 44 709 287 6829
E-mail :* *uklottery_2008claimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk*

"Do not reply back to this email from its source, it is sent via computer
virtual assistance for response will not be read my Human but computer"
contact the fiduciary agents by telephone or email provided above "

Yours faithfully,
Teresa Marie Roberts. Online coordinator.
UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Copyright (c) 1994-2008 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline. 77635 476378 255667460.

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