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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!
• 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.
  • +448701299820 (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.
  • uknationalfundsdept@hotmail.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "UKNATIONAL LOTTERY HQ" <burkefaith@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: fundsdeptsuklhq@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:32:41 +0000
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION

U.K.- NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS,
28 TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.LONDON.
Ref: KPC/9080118309/03/TCA
Draw No: 05/1019


Attention;

We happily bring to your notice the results of the UK National Lottery
International programs held on the 28th September, 2005 in London .
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600547 491 with Serial
number: 5391/14 drew the lucky numbers: 21 - 32 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 46 - 17,
which subsequently won you a prize in the 2nd category. You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £501,034.00 pounds equivalent to US$
913,685.60 (Nine Hundred and Thirteen Thousand, Six Hundred and Eighty-five
United States Dollars and Sixty cent) in cash credited to file
KPC/9022823809/05/TCA.

This prize is from a total cash prize of £ 2,800,000 pounds shared amongst
the first Five (5) lucky winners in this grand category "B". This year
Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for British Lottery. The
estimated £ 2,800,000 pounds jackpot would be the Fifth-biggest in U.K.
history. The biggest was the USD 363 Million jackpots that were shared
between two winners in the January 2004 draw of The Big Game Mega Millions'
predecessor.

All participants were selected randomly from various websites on 'The World
Wide Web, www' through a computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually. For security
reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till
your claims is processed and your prize remitted to you as required in this
grand category "B" terms and conditions of claims.

This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by non winners. Please note that, your
lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office
in London as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £501,034.00
pounds equivalent to US$ 913,685.60 (Nine Hundred and Thirteen Thousand, Six
Hundred and Eighty-five United States Dollars and Sixty cent) prize would be
transferred to your designated Bank account. Our approved agent, The Trans
Atlantic Company will immediately commence on processing your claims, to
facilitate the release of our prize to you as soon as you make contact with
them.

Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim, kindly contact our
fiduciary agent with the below details for processing your claims:
Name: Mr. Jeffrey Rice.
E-mail: (uknationalfundsdept@hotmail.co.uk) Foreign Manager,
Payment and Release order Department, Trans Atlantic S.A London, United
Kingdom.

Note that, all claims processes and clearance procedures must be duly
completed early to avoid impersonation and or double claiming. To
avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/draw
numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Faith Burke
Lottery Co-ordinator.
Tel:0044-704-0120-591
Tel:0044-776-747-5328
FAX NO/+44-870-129-9820

For: The UK National/ International Promotion's.

N.B please confirm your winning from our central lottery link
http://www.thelotter.com/Results_.asp?Lottery=24 with your
Draw number: 05/1019

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