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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
  • uklotterypayoutdept@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "BRITISH LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL" <btlnotification@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:42:17 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION


UK LOTTERY PROMOTION BOARD
ONLINE VERSION
CATEGORY A
PO Box 275. London, L30 1BL
ONLINE WINNERS NOTIFICATION

The United Kingdom Lottery Promotions Board wishes to inform you of the
quarterly draws and results of the 2005 International online version.
Prospective winners and participants in this category are identified by
their email addresses, selected through a computer ballot system and
extracted from websites of corporate bodies, guestbook entries, individual
email account

domains, unions and associations listed online. No tickets were sold in this
category.

The computer ballot system randomly selected and attached your email address
to the winning

numbers and bonus ball . You have therefore been

approved by the Lottery Executive Committee to claim a total sum of
£600,000{Six Hundred Thousand Pound Sterling}together with a category A
Lottery Payment - Treasury Certificate. For more informations pertaining
results online, click on this link

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



All Lottery winnings must be claimed not later than 31 days after
acknowledgement via email. Prize money unclaimed after the expiration of
this date will be returned to the Lottery Treasury Department and included
in the next draws. For more information on claims process pertinent to the
award of your Lottery winnings, contact our contracted Fiduciary agent:

Gregory Carter.

Claims/ Verification Department

Email:uklotterypayoutdept@yahoo.co.uk
Congratulations on behalf of our staff and Lottery Executive Committee.



Sincerly,

Howard M. Smith

Lottery Coordinator



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