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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")
  • "fudiciary" (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.
  • +447031907351 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448701299820 (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.
  • uknationalfudiciary001@zensearch.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Jeffrey Rice" <uknationalfudiciary2005@msn.com>
Reply-To: uknationalfudiciary001@zensearch.com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:28:52 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

U.K.- NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS,
28 TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.LONDON.
Ref: KPC/9080118309/03/TCA
Draw No: 05/1019


Attention;

We happily
bring to your notice the results of the UK National Lottery
International programs held on the 28th September, 2005 in London .
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600547 491 with
Serial number: 5391/14 drew the lucky numbers: 21 - 32 - 41 - 42 - 43
- 46 - 17, which subsequently won you a prize in the 2nd category. You
have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of ₤501,034.00
pounds
equivalent to US$ 913,685.60 (Nine Hundred and Thirteen Thousand, Six
Hundred and Eighty-five United States Dollars and Sixty cent) in cash
credited to file KPC/9022823809/05/TCA.

This prize is from a total
cash prize of ₤ 2,800,000 pounds shared amongst the first Five (5)
lucky winners in this grand category "B". This year Lottery Program
Jackpot is the largest ever for British Lottery. The estimated ₤
2,800,000 pounds jackpot would be the Fifth-biggest in U.K. history.
The biggest was the USD 363 Million jackpots that were shared between
two winners in the January 2004 draw of The Big Game Mega Millions'
predecessor.

All participants were selected randomly from various
websites on 'The World Wide Web, www' through a computer draw system
and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place
annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims is processed and your prize
remitted to you as required in this grand category "B" terms and
conditions of claims.

This is a part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by non
winners. Please note that, your lucky winning number falls within our
European booklet representative office in London as indicated in our
play coupon. In view of this, your ₤501,034.00 pounds equivalent to
US$
913,685.60 (Nine Hundred and Thirteen Thousand, Six Hundred and Eighty-
five United States Dollars and Sixty cent) prize would be transferred
to your designated Bank account. Our approved agent, The Trans Atlantic
Company will immediately commence on processing your claims, to
facilitate the release of our prize to you as soon as you make contact
with them.

Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim,
kindly contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for
processing your claims:
Name: Mr. Jeffrey Rice.
E-mail:
(uknationalfudiciary001@zensearch.com) Foreign Manager,
Payment and Release
order Department, Trans Atlantic S.A London, United Kingdom.

Note
that, all claims processes and clearance procedures must be duly
completed early to avoid impersonation and or double claiming. To
avoid
unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/draw
numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Faith Burke
Lottery Co-ordinator.
Tel:+44-703-
190-7351
FAX NO/+44-870-129-9820

For: The UK National/ International
Promotion's.

N.B please confirm your winning from our central lottery
link
http://www.thelotter.com/Results_.asp?Lottery=24 with your
Draw
number: 05/1019

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