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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")
  • "million pounds" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • agnt_markanderson@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aagnt_markanderson@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIONAL UK LOTTERY" <officebox8@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: agnt_markanderson@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 01:48:56 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


*P.O. Box 1010, Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM.
(Customer Services Department)

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#990) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTO online
Sweepstakes International program drawn at 8.30pm GMT on 2nd july 2008:.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: UKNL/B4401 with Serial Number
00811C drew the lucky numbers:
(04) (10) (14) (21) (32) (49) (44)

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd Category i.e. match 5 plus
Bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 485,000.00
[Four hundredand Eighty five thousand Pounds Sterling] in cash credited to
file UKNL/4726414249/37.This is from the total cash prize of 1,000,000.00
[One Million Pounds Sterling]; shared amongst the (5) lucky winners in this
category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system. Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our African Booklet representative office in
Nigeria . In view of this, your 485,000.00 [Four hundredand Eighty five
thousand Pounds Sterling ] would be released to you by our accredited
fiduciary agent. They will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. For security reasons,
you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your
money is processed and remitted to you. 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 accredited
fiduciary agents;

WYNES Associates.
Fiduciary Officer: MARK ANDERSON
Email:agnt_markanderson@hotmail.com <Email%3Aagnt_markanderson@hotmail.com>
Good luck from myself (MARK ANDERSON)and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

SAN EMMANUEL WYNE
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTO
Sweepstakes International Program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 16 is automatically
disqualified. *************** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MAIL
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