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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:

• 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:
  • "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.
  • penick2006@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?penick=20livingn?= <penick2006@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: livingnick2006@myway.com
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 04:13:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS


J'ai une nouvelle adresse de courrielVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : penick2006@yahoo.ca

BATCH: 37145-0

REF: 038-04257273-188 RESULTADOS ANTERIORES 18/05/2006



PRIMITIVA JUEVES RESULTADOS PREMIOS POUNDS

Fecha 27/04/2006 6 Aciertos 0

Combinación Ganadora 10-18-29-46-48-49 5+C Aciertos 356.215,49




ATTN: Larry M. Turk

.



PRIMITIVA AWARD NOTICE



We are pleased to inform you of the release of the PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMMES held on 18/05/06.



Your name was entered as a dependent client attached to ticket Nº: 126 with serial Nº: 52201-61 drew the lucky winning Nº: 10 - 18 - 29 - 46 - 48 - 49. with REFERENCE Nº: 038-04257273-188 and BATCH Nº: 37145-0 which subsequently, won the lottery in the second category. You have therefore been approved for a winning payment of£356,215.49 (THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN POUNDS FOURTY-NINE PENCE ONLY) in cash credited to file claims number: FGL/2002365214/MD/03. This is from a total cash prize of Euros 5,568,770.00,(FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EUROS) shared among eleven international winners in this category. Congratulations!!!



Your fund is now deposited with an offshore Bank in your name. Due to a mix-up of numbers and names, we advise you keep your winning numbers to yourself until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated account as this is a part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participant.



All participants were selected through a computer ballot system and sponsored by MAPFRE MARKETING U.K. drawn from 25,000 (TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND) names from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America as part of our international promotions programme which we conduct once a month.



To begin your claim, please contact PENICK WOOD. Foreign Operations Manager of ESTRELLA SEGUROS U.K so that he can send you the Prize Claim Processing form which you shall fill carefully and accurately and return back through the given phone, TEL: (44) 7040116973, WINNERS FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, ASIA , WINNERS FROM EUROPE AND OTHERS

Remember that all prize money must be claimed no later than 30/06/2006. After this date all funds will return to the FINANCE MINISTRY as unclaimed funds.



In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complication if there is any changes of your contact, please do inform your claims agent, please remember to quote your reference number and batch number at every correspondence with us or your claims agent.



Congratulations once again, and thank you for being a part of our international promotions programme.

Contact your claim agent during working hour from 8AM to 10PM GMT.

Sincerely.



LIVING NICK. No. 9540772140

President, Lottery Award Board







Loterías-134.



- penick livingn

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