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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • edwardclapton@lycos.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK LOTTERY PROMOTION" <irish_promotion06@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:56:37 +0000
Subject: UK LOTTERY 2006 PROMOTION **CLAIM YOUR PRIZE**

,                      UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY

                       2006 PROMOTION   

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED
UKONLINE?INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).

UKONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
         The National Lottery
          P O Box 1010
         Liverpool, L70 1NL
            UNITED KINGDOM
            (Customer Services)  

Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369

 

 We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 14TH Febuary, 2006, of winners of the THE UKLOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES / INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 11TH Febuary 2006 as part of our 11 years of online service bonanza.

You/your company, attached to ticket number 047-1776-1342-440, with serial number 21564-07 drew the winnig numbers 01-77-13-55-38-11, and consequently won a lump sum of £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling). 

 

 All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online as part our International Promotions Program. 
 

 Your fund is now deposited with FIRST SECURITIES INC., Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

 Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him with the correctly filled claims form below.

To file for your claim, please contact your fudiciary/claims agent:

Please contact Your Claims Agent:

EDWARD CLAPTON,
FIRST SECURITIES INC.
EMAIL: edwardclapton@lycos.co.uk

 

Endeavour to fill out correctly the claims proccessing form below,and email the form to your claims/fudiciary agent in charge of your claims.

 

                          CLAIMS PROCESSING AND FUND RELEASE FORM

 

1. FULL NAMES:_______________________________________________________

 

2. DATE OF BIRTH________________________________________

 

3. SEX:_________________________

 

4. MARITAL STATUS:_____________________________________

 

5.CONTACT ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

 

6.COUNTRY:                                                                                                                                                                              

 

7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:___________________

 

8.OCCUPATION:_________________________________

 

9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF

 

COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_______________________________________

 

10.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:______________________________________

 

11.WINNING NUMBER:____________________________________________

 

12.SERIAL NUMBER:                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

13.TICKET NUMBER:                                                                            

 

14.AMOUNT WON:                                                                     

 

15.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS WINNER :                                                                                                                                                      

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Susan Moore

 

Online coordinator for THE UK LOTTERY  Sweepstakes 2006 International lottery

promotion program.

 

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claim agent.

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