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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:
  • "claim 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: "phili jane" <philijane1@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:34:00 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS,YOU HAVE WON

Dear Prize Winner,

RESULTS FOR PROMOTIONAL DRAW

GRANDE LOTTERY U.K wishes to announce its result for its third quarter
on-line lottery promotions programmed. We are pleased to announce you as one
of the six lucky winners in the GRANDE LOTTERY UK draw held on 20TH of
OCTOBER. All six winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
25,000 international emails drawn from the world wide web users database all
over the world.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved a total pay out of One
Million Two Hundred and Fifty Eight Thousand Pounds steling in cash
(£1,258,000). The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment
order:

(i) Winning numbers: 07, 15, 29, 37, 48, 56
(ii) Email ticket number: 273-1-3221
(iii) Lotto batch number: PP246GL
(iv) File Ref.number: GL6341-6

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for
the immediate release of your winnings:

MRS.JANE PHILI
LOTTERY CLAIMS DIRECTOR,
MCCLAREN& CO. FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD.
28 Beck House Town Street.
Westborough.
Newark Notts NG23 5HQ.
UNITED KINGDOM.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
Mr. JACKSON BILL
AWARDSCOORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, UK.
24HOUGHTON STREET,
London WC2A 2AE,
UNITED KINGDOM


You are to provide the claim agent with the under listed information
as soon as possible:

1. NAME IN FULL:................................

2. ADDRESS:.....................................

3. NATIONALITY:.................................

4. AGE:.........................................

5. Sex..........................................

6. OCCUPATION:..................................

7. MARITAL STATUS:..............................

8. PHONE.......................................

9. FAX:........................................

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process,
failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings Forfeiture.
Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full
and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of
claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards
winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning
details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a breach
of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered
solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy
taken on employment.

PLEASE NOTE:GRANDE LOTTERY U.K is licensed by the British Gaming Board
to organizes-lottery promotions and winners are free to decline their
prizes or process same in line with our policies.


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