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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)
  • "uk national lottery inc." (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (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.
  • +447035933975 (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.
  • mr-whites-desk@hotmail.co.uk
  • satex81@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Saul Arboleda <satex81@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:50:24 +0000
Subject: mr-whites-desk@hotmail.co.uk





FUND RELEASE FORM‏

De:
Eric White (mr-whites-desk@hotmail.co.uk)

Enviado:
martes, 16 de septiembre de 2008 3:17:06

Para:
satex81@hotmail.com








Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04Batch: R3/A312-59

Dear Winner,
I am in receipt of your mail,with regard to your question,this email address (satex81@hotmail.com) has been selected as one of the winning addresses for the online sweepstake version of the UK National Lottery.Your e-mail address was attached to Ticket no: 56475600545 188 ,subsequently won you the lottery in the second category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £750 ,000.00

This is as one of our TEN LUCKY Winner in this years UK National Lottery Online Sweeptakes Program. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer electronic balloting System without the winner applying and extracted from over 125,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

However,as a laid down procedure of the UK National Lottery Board you are required to fill the "Claims Verification Form" below and send it back to me (Mr. Eric White) Via email so that we can authenticate the veracity of your claim to be the owner of this email address,once this is carried and you are successful in our screening exercise,we will immediately begins the process of payment of your winnings.

NB:Do understand that there is time constrain in the collection of prizes,and the Lottery Board will be using prizes of any of its winners that failed to meet the stipulated dates for the payment for the upcoming draws.

VERIFICATION FORM

TO AUTHENTICATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS FROM YOUR WEBMAIL PROVIDER AND RECORD PURPOSES,WE DO REQUIRE YOU TO SEND THESE INFORMATION TO US ASAP

Name of Winner: ------------------------------------------AContact Address: ----------------------------------------------------------- Country of Residence:--------------------------------------------------------- Nationality:------------------------- Sex------------Marital Status:-------------------------------------Winning Email Address: Telephone Number: ---------------------------------------------------Occupation & Position:------------------------Age: ----------------------------Next of Kin:-------------------------------------------Batch No: ----------------------------------------------------

OFFICIAL USE ONLYVerified by:________________ Confirmed by: ________________FUDICIARY AGENT’S SIGNATURE:

PHONE CONTACTS ARE COMPULSORY FOR NON UK RESIDENT WINNERS.UPON RECEIPT OF THE DULY REQUESTED DATA,YOUR PAYMENT DETAILS WILL BE FORWARDED TO YOU.

Yours Truly,Eric White (Mr).Tel: +44 7035933975
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