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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")
  • "foreign service manager" (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.
  • +447031970318 (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.
  • oxfordclaimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK Lottery Online Draws" <draws_noticedesk2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:46:11 +0100
Subject: :Your email has won X862,395.00 UK lottery prize.

The U.K.National Lottery
P.O.Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL.
(customer service)NOTIFICATION DESK
Results:http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/prizes/prizeAction.do

Attention: Email Account Holder,

We happily announce to you the draw (#1119) of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on wednesday 20th September
06.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 10005600545 773 with
reference number APZ/50110-FPZA/006 and Serial number 5368/02 ,Batch number
XA887-2P, drew the lucky numbers: 02,15,21,37,43, Bonus 36.Which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. matches 5 plus
bonus ball .

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £862,395 .00 (Eight
Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand Three Hundred and Ninty Five Pounds) in cash
credited to file UKPC/9080144308/05. This is from a total cash prize of
£18,520,063 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand and Sixty
Three Pounds), shared amongst the 560192 with two lucky winners in second
category.

LOTTO PRIZE BREAKDOWN Draw 1118 wednesday 20 Sept 06
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Jackpot for this draw £8,041,028
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No of matches No of winners £s per winner Total
Match 6 4 £2,010,257 £8,041,028
Match 5 plus Bonus 2 £862,395 £1,724,790
Match 5 533 £2,022 £1,077,726
Match 4 28493 £83 £2,364,919
Match 3 531160 £10 £5,311,600
Totals 560192 £18,520,063
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Additional informationJackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for
draw Ball set used
4 228087 AMETHYST 4
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All participants for the online email 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 Online promotion takes place every two months.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Oxfordshire (UK) as indicated in your ballot played
coupon. In view of this, your £862,395 .00 (Eight Hundred and Sixty Two
Thousand Three Hundred and Ninty Five Pounds) would be released to you by
our payment department.

Our Fiduciary agent 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 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 and provide him
with your winning email details .remember to quote your reffrence numbers.

UK Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Mr. Richard Lloyd
Foreign Service Manager
Overseas Subscribers Agent
2A Islip Road Oxford,
London OX2 7SP
United Kingdom
Tel/fax : + 44 703 197 0318
: + 44 703 197 0319
E-mail : oxfordclaimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk

Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
"Do not reply to this email, contact the fiduciary agents by telephone or
email above "

Yours faithfully,
Teresa Marie Roberts(Mrs.)
Online coordinator.

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