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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")
  • "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447031844361 (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.
  • oxfordclaimsoffice2@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "lottery board" <lotteryboard_uk@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:38:02 -0500
Subject: your email has won £980,499.

The U.K. National Lottery
P.O.Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL.


Ref: UKPC/9080144308/05
Batch: R3/A312-59a

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the UK National lottery Online E-mail(Draw #1039)
of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International E-mail lottery
Program held on WEDNESDAY 7th December 2005.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 75604545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 01,15,23,30,45,49 & bonus 33.
This subsequently won you jackpot of the lucky dip prizes.
CONGRATULATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £980,499 (Nine
Hundred and Eighty Thousand four Hundred and Ninety Nine Great British
Pounds ) in cash credited to file UKPC/9080144308/05. This is from a total
cash prize of £2,941,497 shared amongst the Three (03) lucky winners in this
category.

LOTTO PRIZE BREAKDOWN

Draw 1039 Wed 07 Dec 05 Jackpot £2,941,497

NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £s PER WINNER TOTAL
Match 6 3 £980,499 £2,941,497 Match 5 plus
bonus 7 £129,296 £905,072
Match 5 385 £1,469 £565,565
Match 4 17983 £69 £1,240,827
Match 3 323646 £10 £3,236,460

Totals 342024 £8,889,421

Additional Information

Jackpot winner(s) 3 Machine used for Draw AMETHYST Winners by Lucky Dip
117240 Ball set used 8 Additional Information

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, companies and corporate bodies that are listed
online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
Euro-Afro-American booklet representative office in Oxford as indicated in
your lucky coupon.
In view of this, your{ £980,499} would be released to you by the Camelot
Group (UK LOTTERY )Paying bank of this zone which is Halifax bank Plc.

Our 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 in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
prize. 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, please contact our fiduciary agent immediately .Call
or email him immediately:

Mr. Davis Kelley
Foreign Service Manager
Overseas Subscribers Agents
62A Islip Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX2 7SP
United Kingdom
Tel/fax: + 44 703 184 4361
E-mail -: oxfordclaimsoffice2@yahoo.co.uk

Please be informed that all winnings must be claimed within 30Days of date
of the draw. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote
your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated
Fiduciary Agents or us.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this
program that has successfully won this competition. Thank you for being part
of our promotional lottery Program.

Once again congratulations from the entire staff of the U.K NATIONAL
LOTTERY.

Warm regards,
Mrs. Teresa. Roberts.
Promotions Manager for the U.K. National Lottery.

Stephen K. Harris.
Online Coordinator

© Copyright 1994-2005 The U.K. National Lottery Inc.

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