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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 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.
  • derricksmith077@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "uknational_lottery09" <uknational_lottery09@terra.com.mx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:49:41 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATION !!!


The U.K. National Lottery
P.O. Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL
United Kingdom.

Ref: XYL /89438743987/06
Batch: 24/00319/IPD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#1048) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday 1st, July 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 5648709-88963241576 with Serial number 9873/06 drew the lucky numbers: 08 14 19 28 29 48 (06) (Bonus ball) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 6. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £5000,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling) credited to file #: XYL /89438743987/06.










Draw 1048 Sat 1st July 2006Jackpot


£15,000,000







NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £s PER WINNER TOTAL

Match 6 5 £500,000.00 £2,500,000

Match 5 plus bonus 21 £81,631 £1,714,251

Match 5 813 £1,317 £1,070,721

Match 4 47683 £49 £2,336,467

Match 3 862131 £10 £8,621,310


Totals 910653 £16,242,749









Additional Information

Jackpot winner(s)5Machine used for DrawTOPAZ
Winners by Lucky Dip306324Ball set used2



This is from a total cash prize of £15,000,000:00 (Fifteen Million Great Britain Pounds Sterling) Only Five lucky winner in this category i.e. Match 6. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 500,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. Our international promotions program was introduced to encourage prospective overseas entries. The internet emailing ideal was used, since most people are not able to purchase tickets and play outside the UK. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent E-lottery jackpots.

This promotion takes place twice weekly (Wednesdays and Saturday). The idea of this promotion is that within ten years from now, there will be notable richness amongst many unusual people around the world. This will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage where they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will only be chosen in this online email promotions once, which means that subsequent weekly winnings will not get to you again, so its your choice to spend the funds wisely on something that will last you a long time. Please do not border following up this email, if you have benefited from this donation in previous years.

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 £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by our payment agent's office in UK.

Our Fiduciary 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 claims is processed and your money remitted to you. 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, contact our fiduciary agent immediately via email.
Agents Name: Mr. Derrick Smith
E-mail: derricksmith077@yahoo.co.uk

Once again congratulations...

Cordially yours,

Mrs.Mary Seth.
Online Co-ordinator
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY PAYMENT AGENT
Sweepstakes International Program.



© 2006 UK National Lottery. All rights reserved.

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