419 scam: "Uk Charity Foundation"<uk.charity@sify.com> UK Charity Foundation

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claims 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)
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.
- +447031846908 (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.
- rcurtis1111@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Uk Charity Foundation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rcurtis1111@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:36:57 -0000
Subject: UK Charity Foundation

UK CHARITY FOUNDATION AWARD PROMOTION
Suite 154, Clarendon Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD61JF, London
United Kingdom.

Dear Winner,

we happily announce to you that you have won our International Charity Award of
usd$950,000 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars) during the 2009 Global
Internet Summit titled "Discovering Greatness", held in the London,
United kingdom. All 30 winning Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 international Emails. Your Email address emerged alongside 29 others
as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual UK CHARITY FOUNDATION
PROMOTION LOTTERY draw. No tickets were sold.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
usd$950,000 only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment
order:

(i) Winning Serial Number: 900-102-447
(ii) Email Ticket Number: UK754/22/76
(iii) Lotto Code Number: TL09622UK
(iv) File Ref Number: ICA/11-GIS/2009UK

Please contact the under listed claims Agent as soon as possible for the
immediate release of your winnings: PLEASE CALL OUR AGENT NOW.

Claims Our Agent
MR. Robert Curtis
Email: rcurtis1111@gmail.com
Phone: +447031846908

N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;

1. Contact your claims Agent immediately you receive this notification to
begin the claims process.

2. You are required to send your full name(s) as it should appear on the
Certificate of Winning that would be issued to you, and fill the below
Non-Private Information when contacting the Agent.

1. FULL NAME(S): ________________________________
2. ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, COUNTRY: ________________
3. SEX: ________________________________________
4. AGE: _______________________________________
5. OCCUPATION: _______________________________
6. COMPANY: _____________________ B. POSITION HELD: ____________
7. WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER: ________________________
File Ref Number:________________________

3. Also quote your File reference Number as given above while contacting the
Agent. This is very important and cumpulsory on first correspondence with your
claims Agent.

On behalf of the entire UK CHARITY FOUNDATION stakeholders, I say
congratulations!!!

Sincerely,

John D. Colin
Promotion Manager.

PURPOSE OF UK CHARITY FOUNDATION AWARDS PROMOTION LOTTERY
===============================================================
To encourage internet users.

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The UK CHARITY FOUNDATION, a non governmental organization (NGO) is proudly
sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group,Toshiba,Dell computers
and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.

The UK CHARITY FOUNDATION PROMOTION LOTTERY draw is held once in a year and is
so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We
are proud to say that over 15 Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150
countries worldwide.

If you do not wish to accept your prize, you should disregard this
Notification. Unclaimed Prize Money will be recalled and put back into the
Foundations projects.

Contact your Claims Agent immediatelly!

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