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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims 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.
  • claimsagent_ann@ny.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Uk Lottery" <uk_lotterypromo201@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: claimsagent_ann@ny.com
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:49:59 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON A UK LOTTERY.

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P.O.BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM.

2006 EMAIL BALLOTING
ONLINE NATIONAL LOTTERY UK
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF NO: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH NO: 074/05/ZY369

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
UK Online National Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the
E-mail
address ballot lottery international program held on 11th Febuary 2006.
Your email address was attached to ticket number
56475600545-188, with serial number 5388/02 drew with lucky numbers
43-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently Won the lottery in the (A)
category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system
drawn from Microsoft users from companies and individual email
addresses.You have therefore been approved a lump sum of US$
2,500,000.00
(Two Million Five Hundred United States Dollars)Be advice to keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has been processed
and
your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program, For the release
of
your winning, kindly contact your claims agent:
==================================================================
THE CLAIMS AGENT!!
Prize Remittance Dept,
MRS ANN BRIGGS
EMAIL: claimsagent_ann@ny.com
==================================================================
Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him and you are to quote
your lucky number for confirmation on your winning in every
correspondences with claims agent. All winning must be claimed not
later
than 29th of April, 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be
returned to United Kingdom Union Treasury as unclaimed. Furthermore,
should
there be any Change of your address; do inform your claims agent as
soon as
possible.
Congratulations!!! again from
all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery
program.


Yours faithfully,
Mr.David Coker
(Promotions Manager)
========================================================================

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