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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")
  • "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 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.
  • +447031915498 (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.
  • agentfurness@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <winnings@uknl-internationalworld.org>
Reply-To: agentfurness@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:22:17 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Centre
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
London,                                                                                                                             United Kingdom
12th September,2005
                                                                  
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
REF: UNL/26510460037/02
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD
ATTENTION: Sir/Madam

            RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION;FINAL NOTICE
We happily announce to you the draw (#1014) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday,10th
September, 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 023-0148-790-459 with
Serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky numbers:

01  08  24  27  34  46 bonus ball  30

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category i.e match
5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of   £187,222.00
(one hundred and eighty seven thousand, two hundred and twenty two
pounds sterling ) in cash credited to file REF NO. UNL/26510460037/02.
This is from a total cash prize of   £1,684,998.00  shared amongst the first
nine (9) lucky winners in this category.                                                             Draw 1014 Sat 10th September,2005  Jackpot 
£1,684,998.00 
NUMBER OF MATCHES    No OF WINNERS     £s PER WINNER      TOTAL
Match 6    1    £5,476,246   £5,476,246
Match 5 plus bonus    9    £187,222    £1,684,998
Match 5    510    £2,064    £1,052,640
Match 4    29598    £78    £2,308,644
Match 3    576072    £10    £5,760,720
Additional Information
Jackpot winner(s) 3 Machine used for Draw PEARL
Winners by Lucky Dip 208656 Ball set used 3
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. 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  £1,684,998.00 (one million,six hundred and eighty four thousand
nine hundred and ninety eight pounds sterling ) 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 till 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. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent;

Mr. Andrew Gordon Furness
Email: agentfurness@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447031915498
       +447031931291

For due processing and remittance of your prize
money,please remember to quote your
reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later
than 27th September, 2005. After this date, all funds will
be returned 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 staff and thank
you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
Sincerely,

Jox White
Zonal Co-ordinator
www.national-lottery.co.uk

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