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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")
• 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.
  • +448712516682 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • nklclaimsagentt@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Paul Klein" <nklclaimsagents@netscape.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:46:01 +0300
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION.

NKL WORLD WIDE -ELECTRONIC MAIL BALLOT SYSTEM.


GERMANY.
Ref: NKL/3460X2/88
Batch: NKL/06/BY377

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Regards our award we are obliged to inform you about the NKL ELECTRONIC
MAIL BALLOT SYSTEM. Online International program held on 5th June 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 456756008888 with Serial
number 1111/05 drew the lucky numbers: 08-06-17-44-27-77(bonus no.)05, which
subsequently won you the email ballot in the 3rd category i.e. match 3 plus
bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of ***€1,500,000 euro
(one million five hundred thousand euro) in cash credited to file
NKL/6024770000/06.

This is from a total cash prize of €8364; 5.634.000 shared amongst the
first three (3) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 6. Draw 936 Sat 11
Dec 05 Jackpot 1,941,436 NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS €8364; s PER WINNER
TOTAL Match 6 3**2500; €1,500,000.00 €941,436 Match 5 plus bonus 37 **8364;
€32,777 **8364;€212,749 Match 5 ZY369 **8364; €100,000.00 Match 4 56516
**8364;€1,638,964 Match 3 894681 **8364; €8,946,810 Totals 952304
**8364;€497,529.

Additional Information Jackpot winner(s) 3 Machine used for Draw PEARL
Winners by Lucky Dip 208656 Ball set used 3 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 €8364; €1,500,000.00
euro (one million five hundred thousand euro) 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 them.

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 London fiduciary agent:

CONTACT PERSON: Dean Almas
Email: nklclaimsagentt@netscape.net

Yours faithfully,
Paul Klein
Phone/Fax+44-87-1251-6682

Anti-fraud resources:

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