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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "EUROMILLION LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES." <euromillionsnotification@msn.com>
Reply-To: euromillionsclaimsdepartment@msn.com
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:29:14 +0000
Subject: EUROMILLIONS WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

 

EUROMILLIONS Headquarters,
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England.

 

Customer Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

 

                                                WINNING NOTIFICATION:

 

We happily announce to you the draw (#86) of the EURO MILLIONS ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES held on Friday 30th of September, 2005 in NEWCASTLE  UNITED-KINGDOM.

 

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 - 75600545 - 188 with Serial number 5368 - 02 drew the winning numbers: 06 - 11 - 47 - 48 - 50 - [ 01 - 06 ] Lucky stars.

 

 

which subsequently won you the lottery in the email online category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £4,255,018.00 (Four million, two hundred and fifty five thousand, eighteen Great British Pounds sterling) in cash, credited to file KTU/9023118308/05. This is from a total cash prize of  £14,118,016.40 pounds, shared amongst all the winners in the different categories.

 

All participants for this online 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 promotion takes place weekly.

 

Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall within our European booklet representative office in Europe, in view of this, your £4,255,018.00 will be released to you by our contracted finance house in Europe.

 

Our UK agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you. 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, contact our fiduciary agent:

 

Email: euromillionsclaimsdepartment@msn.com

 

with your claims verification form/information below:

 

FULL NAMES:...........................................................................

 

CONTACT ADDRESS:............................................................

 

CITY:............................................................................................

 

STATE:.........................................................................................

 

COUNTRY:..................................................................................

 

NATIONALITY:..........................................................................

 

ZIPCODE:....................................................................................

 

SEX:....................................... AGE:............................................

 

MARITAL STATUS..................................................................

 

TEL NO:......................................................................................

 

FAX NO:.....................................................................................

 

EMAIL ADDRESS:...................................................................

 

NEXT OF KIN:...........................................................................

 

OCCUPATION:.........................................................................

 

ANNUAL INCOME:..................................................................

AMOUNT WON:........................................................................

 

REFERENCE NO:................... BATCH NO:............................

 

WINNING NO:....................... TICKET NO:.............................

 

SERIAL NO:....................... LOTTERY DATE:........................

 

Congratulations once again from all members and staff of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery programs.

 

Yours faithfully,
Mr. PAUL FREDDRICKS.

Online coordinator EURO MILLIONS
Sweepstakes International Program.

 

 

 

CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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