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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:
  • "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.
  • email_notification06@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • email_verificationcentre2006@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?British=20Lottery=20Notification?= <email_notification06@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 00:27:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Ref Number:UNL/26510460037/02''' (Emerged Winner)


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: email_notification06@yahoo.co.uk

British Lottery Headquarters:

UKNATIONAL CAMELOT E-MAIL LOTTERY

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT

REFNUMBER:UNL/26510460037/02

BATCH NUMBER: 24/00319/IPD

File Ref number: UNL/26510460037/02


WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL

NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

We happily announce to you the draw (#974) of the Uknational Camelot lottery programs. which was held for the first quater of the year 2006 in London,

Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number: 69475600545 721 with Serial number: 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers which subsequently won you the


lottery in the 2nd category.

You are therefore, being approved to a lump sum of £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great britain Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file


(i)REFNUMBER:UNL/26510460037/02

(ii) BATCH NUMBER: 24/00319/IPD

(iii) File Ref number: UNL/26510460037/02


All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.

This quaterly Lottery Jackpot Program is the largest ever for British Lottery, The estimated five million pound jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K history.

The biggest was the 10 million pounds sterlings jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big Game, Mega

Millions'predecessor.


Please note that your lucky Email address falls within our play coupon

Note that your are adhere to contact the claims processing officer with informations as given below

Overseas Claims Unit

Lottery Fiduciary Agent Officer


Mrs Mildred .G. Furness

Payment Coordinator.

Email: email_verificationcentre2006@yahoo.es


Please To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, do quote your reference/batch numbers


CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

JOX WHITE

Online coordinator

British National Lottery Program


CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: If you received this message in error,

please notify the sender by replying email and delete

all copies of the original message.

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