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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • claimsofficer_claurahooper@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "national lottery" <winners_notifieruklotto@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:22:21 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY

The National Lottery

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)

Date: February 19th, 2006

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

 

 

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

 

Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#999) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held 1st February 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serialnumber 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:

04 02 25 05

, Bonus Ball [02] which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 3 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £1,250,000 shared amongst the first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 4 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your £250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterlings)would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.Our European 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 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.

To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department by email for processing and remittance of your prize money to you. Your assigned claims officer contact email is:

Overseas Claims Unit

United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary

Mrs Claura Hooper

Email:claimsofficer_claurahooper@yahoo.co.uk
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CLAIMS REQUIREMENTS:
====================
1.Full Name --------------------------------------------------------------
2.Address -------------------------------------------------------------------
3.Nationality ---------------------------------------------------------------
4.Age -----------------------------------------------------------------------
5.Occupation ----------------------------------------------------------------
6.Phone/Fax -----------------------------------------------------------------
7.Present Country -----------------------------------------------------------

 

Our European 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 above citing the batch and reference numbers to this letter.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.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Richard k Lloyd.

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program.

Copyright © 1994-2006 The UK National Lottery Inc.

All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines

 

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