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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • uklottery4you@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • moses_bello1000@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?BRITISH=20LOTTERY=20HEADQUARTERS?= <uklottery4you@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: moses_bello1000@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:01:06 +0530 (IST)
Subject: BRITISH LOTTERY UK.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: uklottery4you@yahoo.co.in

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS,

Customer Service

28 TANFIELD ROAD,

CROYDON.LONDON

Ref:BTL/491oX1/04

Batch: 12/25/0340

Date: 10/04/2006

BRITISH LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

DEAR WINNER,

We happily announce to you the draw of the BRITISH Sweepstake Lottery

International programs held on the 8th of Aperil 2006 in London. Your

e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545-188 with Serial number

5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7,which subsequently won you the

lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a total

sum of £2,500,000.00GBP (Two million, five hundred thousand, Pounds Sterling)

in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of

US £125 Million Pounds, shared amongst the first Fifty (50) lucky

winners in this category.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European

booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In

view of this, your £2,500,000.00GBP (Two million, five hundred

thousand,Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in London.Our

agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your

funds to you as soon as you make contact with her. All participants were

selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and

extracted from over 100,000 companies.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are

advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is

processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim

your prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming

and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please

be warned.To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with

the below details for processing of your claims.

Overseas Claims Unit

United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary

Contact Person: Terry Martins

Email: moses_bello1000@hotmail.com


FILL AND SUBMIT TO THE FIDUCIARY AGENT FOR FOLLOW UP

1.TEL:

2.SEX:

3.AGE:

4.NAME:

6.ADDRESS:

6.COUNTRY:

7.OCCUPATION:

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your

reference/batch numbers and Name in any correspondences with us or our

designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this

program.Thank you

for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,

Mr. Hillary Bill

ZONAL ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR



- BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS

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