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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")
• 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.
  • +447031942690 (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.
  • lotterycompany74@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • lotterycompany75@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ELIZABETH HANKS (Mrs.) <mailmatters13@pnetmail.co.za>
Reply-To: mailmatters12@pnetmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:29:16 +0200
Subject: ***********************AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION*****************************************************


BILL NOTIFICATION DESK
(Customer Services)
3b Olympic Way,
Sexton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool, L30 1RD
UNITED KINGDOM
Batch: 12/25/0340
Ref: BIL/101OXI/02
Attn:Lucky Winner,
We happily announce to you the draw (#989) of the BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International program
held on 16th July 2006.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers: (13)-(43)-(06)-(15)-(02)-(40)bonus #(09).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£500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds
sterling) in cash credited to
file no KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £2,000,000.00 shared amongst the first four lucky winners in this category
i.e Match 5
plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer
draw system and extracted
from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes
place bianually.
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 £500,000 (five hundred thousand pounds sterling) would be
released to you by any of
our Affiliate courier department.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release
of your funds as
soon as you contact him/her.
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 ROBERT SCHELDON
E MAIL: lotterycompany74@yahoo.co.uk
PHONE:+447031942690
PHONE:+447031917488
FAX:+448709127423
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
ELIZABETH HANKS(Mrs.)
Director.International Promotions Unit,
KELLY WADE
CLAIM FIDUCIARY AGENT
TEL:+447031942690
FAX:+448709127423
EMAIL: lotterycompany75@yahoo.co.uk
WARNING!!! ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS
SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY,
THIS WILL HELP US TO FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION
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Anti-fraud resources:

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