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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:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • +447031847283 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712397880 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +31617728176 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "natonallottery coordinator" <britishlotteryonlinegames@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:09:13 +0000
Subject: (ASAP)

British Lottery Headquarters:

Customer Service

28 Tanfield Road,

Croydon.London

UNITED KINGDOM    

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

3rd june 2005.

                                 WINNING NOTIFICATION.  

We happily announce to you the draw (#964) of the NL-UK ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,online sweepstakes International program held on Saturday, July 2nd, 2005.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 08-25-33-35-38-40 (bonus No 07),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP£750,000 00 (Seven hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file TU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £5,250,000 shared amongst the first seven (7) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 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 GBP£750,000 00 (Seven Hundred And FIfty Thousand Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by any of our affiliated security companies.

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 security/fiduciary agent:

**************************************************************

MR. ALTON WILLIAMS

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER

COOPERATE TRUST SECURITY AND FINANCE COMPANY UK.

EMAIL fiducial_agent77@uk2.net

Tel: +44-703-1847283

Tel: +44-703-1849416

Tel+31-617728176

Fax:447092868191

Fax: +44-87-1239-7880

fax+31-205248858

*************************************************************

You can go to our online result site to confirm the Value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown:- http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp or View all our winner for this month:-http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnational.asp

Good luck from me and members of staff of the NL-NATIONAL LOTTERY. Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 16th July 2005.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch number in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Once again congratulations.

Yours faithfully,

Maxwell P. Richard.

Online coordinator for UK ONLINE

INTERNATIONAL  LOTTERY.

Sweepstakes International Program.

uknationallotteryonlinegames@msn.com

Open 7 days 8am-11pm

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