419 scam: "uk olympic committee"<loc@olmpics.com> olympic committee

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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:
- "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 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.
- frednicolas79@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "uk olympic committee" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frednicolas79@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:39:56 +0200
Subject: olympic committee

The National Lottery
P.O.Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL. United Kingdom
(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK
Attention: Email Account Holder,

Congratulations!! Congratulations!!, We happily announce to you the draw (#1404) of the UK OLYMPICS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes promotion held in London on Thursday 12th August 2010.

Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated ticket number: B55607545 4152 with reference number UK/JA2C110P5 and Serial number ZA5365/3 ,Batch number XA87-2PY,drew the lucky numbers: 06 14 32 35 41 Bonus 43
This subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. matches 5 lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.

You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of £ 1 ,520,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand, British Pounds) in cash is credited to file UKPC/9080144308/07. This is from a total cash prize of £17,403,993
Shared amongst the 545,587 with (3) lucky winners in "2nd" category.

Additional information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for draw Ball set used
This promotion was drawn based on email address as the key identification for setting up online accounts. All valid email addresses in the World Wide Web Draw used/participants for the online email promotion version were selected randomly via computer balloting from a global website collaboration with internet companies like eBay, pay pal, liberty reserve, and Google whom also built their systems and based their membership registration identity on email addresses supporting this computer draw system done by extracted email addresses from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies and affiliated members to the National Lottery website and their advertisers listed online.
This Online promotion takes place via virtual ticket balloting and it is done Bi-annually.

Please note that you're lucky winning ticket file and number falls within our European booklet representative office in Watford (UK) as indicated in your ballot played coupon. In view of this, your £1,520,000.00 would be released to you by our payment department.
Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery prize by providing details below.
1. Full Name:
2. Email Address:
3. Age/Occupation:
4. Reference Number/Ticket Number
5. Phone Number:
6. Country:
7. Date of draw

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 choice you want to claim your prize. Precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program are in place. Please be warned!!! To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent and provide them with your winning email and details.

UK Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Dr fred nicolas
Foreign Service Manager
Watford Regional Centre
Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 9RN .United Kingdom
E-mail: frednicolas79@gmail.com

"Please do not reply back to the senders address or the from email address, this notification is sent automatically via computer virtual notification to winning email addresses and a response will not be attended by Human but computer" contact the fiduciary agents "

Yours faithfully,
Teresa Marie Roberts. Online coordinator.
UK OLYMPICS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Copyright (c) 1994-2008 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
All rights reserved

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