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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "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.
  • nickyjames02@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "National Lottery Commision" <nationallottery_93@msn.com>
Reply-To: nickyjames02@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:49:49 +0000
Subject: 2006 ONLINE WINNING NOTIFICATION

Programs and Events Department
The MerseyWorld Lottery - Frontline Group
The National Lottery,
P.O. Box 251,
Watford
WD1 8GD 

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We are officially informing you of the result of the Frontline Lottery Winners International programs held on the 10th of February 2006 as part of our promotional programs for the year 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 77007742781005-18721 with reference number EGS/2251256003/02 drew winning numbers 7-00-71-00-66-49 and credited to batch number 121FTG, which consequently won in the 3rd category via our electronic ticket as stated above. You have therefore been approved for a pay out of  600,000 GBP (SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY).
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We also advice that you keep your winning information very confidential as our security policy demands to avoid double claims/impersonation and unwarranted abuse of this program by some individuals.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system (ESS) from a database of over 500,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world. This promotional program being the first of its kind will now take place annually and we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pound Sterlings International Lottery. To file for your claim, you will be contacting our Customer Service Unit, authorized to conduct the neccessary verification to enable you receive total payment (You will receive more information upon your acknowledgment of this email).

 

Customer Service Unit

CONTRACTED AGENCY:

Mr. Nicky Jamieson

Tel: + (44) 702 407 2396

Email: nickyjames02@yahoo.co.uk

20 Lausanne Road London,
SW2 3JB ENGLAND.U.K

 

You are to provide the claims agent with the under listed information as soon as
possible:
 
1. NAME IN FULL:...............................
2. ADDRESS:.....................................
3. NATIONALITY:.................................
4. AGE:.........................................
5. SEX:.........................................
6. OCCUPATION (POSITION HELD):...................................
7. PHONE:........................................
8. FAX............................................

This promotional lottery is promoted and sponsored by software corporations and other private organizations and we intend to use this medium to help individuals generate fortunes which would encourage them to expand their business frontiers thereby creating more opportunities and assisting with humanitarian concerns within their immediate environment. All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as Unclaimed.  After this date all winning funds will be included in our subsequent program. In order to avoid complications always quote your reference number in all correspondence.

 

NEWS UPDATE:

Lottery Diary http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Info/Diary.html,

Suscription leaflet: http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Info/Sub_Leaflet.html 

links: http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Links/All.html

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform us as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff.
 
N.B: Anybody under the age of 16 is not eligible to participate in this program.

Your's in service,

Mr. Richard K. Lloyd
(Programs & Events) 

Material Copyright © 2005 The Lottery Co. Ltd. •
The Lottery Company and lottery.co.uk is in no way affiliated with, associated with or approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The National Lottery Commission.

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The MerseyWorld Lottery Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of otherinternational IT companies. The Online Lottery internet draw in each quater of the year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that up to One Million Euros are won annually in morethan 150 Countries worldwide.

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