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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:

• 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 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.
  • nlotteryuk@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Uk Royal Lottery" <michealkhumaloo@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: nlotteryuk@primposta.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:55:45 +0000
Subject: Winning Notification!!!

The National Lottery
PO Box 287
Watford WD18 9TT
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369


WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1013) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Wednesday Sept 7th
2005.

Most recently this foundation set up the new lottery scheme to give out
prizes based on computer ballot system. By doing this the foundation seeks
to encourage the use of the Internet for academic and business
pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music, theater, art,
literature,projects in the social and political arena with a focus on
health, as well as science, research, and higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email ticket
number 56475600545188 with Serial number 5368/02 attached to your email ID
which drew the lucky winning numbers 01-05-07-41-43-49,Bonus ball 45 which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus,
and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries
from the 100,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 100,000 different email addresses
submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £2,907,275 credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.

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 winnings of £2,907,275 would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe.Our European agents 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 claims 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:

Mrs Carole linke.
Email:nlotteryuk@gmail.com

For further clarification/verification of your claims,Please call on any of
our official numbers as stated in notification e-mail.You can go to our
online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also
get a prize breakdown:-

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

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