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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")
• 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.
  • claimsprocessing_dept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "sweepfileinfo" <sweepfileinfo@canada.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:43:46 -0800
Subject: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION




The U.K. National Lottery
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.

Customer Service/Claims Department

Ref: Uk/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (Draw #06/1084) of the
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International
Program held on Sat 13th May,2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545
188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:


Bonus Ball

Which subsequently won you one of the lucky dip prizes. You
have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£4,095,381.00 (FOUR MILLION AND NINETY FIVE THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE BRITISH POUNDS ) in cash credited to
file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£8,190,762.00 (EIGHT MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO BRITISH POUNDS) shared
among the two{2} winners in this category.








Draw 1084 SAT 13TH MAY 06
Jackpot BONUS
£8,190,762.00

NUMBER OF
MATCHES No OF
WINNERS £s PER WINNER
TOTAL
Match 6 2
£4,095,381
£8,190,762


Match 5 plus bonus 14
£117,345 £1,642,830


Match 5
637 £1,611
£1,026,207


Match 4 33231
£67 £2,226,477


Match 3
624658 £10
£6,246,580




Totals 658542
£19,332,856
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide
Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over
1,000,000 unions, associations,and corporate bodies that
are listed online.

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
£4,095,381.00 (FOUR MILLION AND NINETY FIVE THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE BRITISH POUNDS) 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
via email:

Mr. RAY COLLINS
Claims Department
The UKNL Foundation
Email: claimsprocessing_dept@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: + (44) 702 305 4705
+ (44) 702 305 4707

with the following vital information:
Full Name:..........................
Full Address:.......................
Nationality:........................
Occupation:.......................
Age:....................................
Sex:........................................
Marital status:..........................
Winning numbers:......................
Batch number:.............................
Amount won:.............................
Email address:.................................
Phone number{land/mobile}:.........

so that he can commence the process of your funds
remittance.





Once again congratulations from the entire staff of the U.K
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Warm regards,


SIR PHILIP M.D SPENCER.

Online Coordinator for the U.K. National Lottery.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
COPYRIGHT © 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED









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