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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: winning notification <winningenator@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:57:12 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!YOUR EMAIL WON OUR LOTTERY


*WINNING NOTIFICATION:*

**

*Dear Lucky Winner,*
*

UK NATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
*

*We are pleased to inform you of the draw (#988) of the UK NATIONAL E-MAIL
LOTTERY,
Online International Lottery Program held on Friday 10 september,
2005.*

*Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter from our new
java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web
.Participants were selected from the registered email addresses in the
Public Key Server -- Index ,it was drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names in
this batch ,participants were taken from Europe, America, Asia, Australia,
New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part
of our international promotions programme conducted three times annually to
encourage prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize
awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.*

*Your email address attached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 01-02-18-25-34-45, which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category .*

*You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $1200000.00 (One
nillion two hundred thousand us dollars) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of $7.2,00000 shared among
the first Six (6) lucky winners in this category.*

*Your prize award has been insured and is ready for claims. To begin your
claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and
accredited fiduciary officer for the Lottery within a period of 10 days
(date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your winning and
remittance to your designated bank account after all statutory obligations
have been satisfactorily dispensed with.*

*This promotion takes place quarterly. Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within this booklet representative office . In view of this,
your $1200000.00 (One nillion two hundred thousand us dollars) would be
released to you by our payment office in London. **Please be informed that
claims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the
pool without further notice.*

*Our fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish
contact via e-mail with the particulars presented below citing the batch and
reference numbers to this letter .*

*Name*

*Age*

*Occupation

Phone number

Sex*

*Nationality*

*Home Address*

*To claim your prize,fill in the above form and have it sent to*

*International Claims Unit*

*Fiduciary officer: Mr. Allan Smith
Email: *franklin_philips@msn.com<http://us.f542.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=franklin_philips@msn.com>

*Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so
desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.*

*CONGRATULATIONS!!!*

*At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,*

*Linda Franklin*

*UK NATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY*

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