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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • danny.blonnk@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tom White" <tomwhite8@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: dannyblonk@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:05:10 -0700
Subject: FROM THE ZONAL CO-ORDINATOR.


[image: U.K National Lottery On-Line]
*UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Centre, Bevan House.
51 Bevan Avenue London, United Kingdom
*
**
*FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT *
**
*REF: UNL/26510460037/027
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD7*
**
*ATTENTION: Winner,*
*
RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE*
**
*We happily announce to you the draw (#1160* *) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on Mon 21st May 2007. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 023-0148-790-459 with Serial
number 5073-11, the lucky numbers: [image: ball 13]* [image: ball 17] [image:
ball 39] [image: ball 46] [image: ball 47] [image: ball 49] *which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category.*

*You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £250,000.00 (Two
hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file REF NO.
UNL/26510460037/02.*
**
*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 annually.*
**
*Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In
view of this, your £250,000.00 (Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
sterling), would be released to you by any of our payment offices in
Europe and Asia*
**
*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 in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. *
**
*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;

MR. DANNY BLONK*
*Email: danny.blonnk@gmail.com<http://us.mc562.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=danny.blonnk@gmail.com>
*
*
For due processing and remittance of your prize money, please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences
with your agent. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than
Two weeks from today. After this date, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.*
**
*Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible.*
**
*Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
our promotional lottery program.*

*Sincerely,
DR.TOM WHITE
Zonal Co-ordinator
*
* ** ** *
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Youmustbe16orovertoplayorclaimaprize]*
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