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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:

• 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.
  • +447024052724 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704781711 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: British Lottery Awards <claimsagent@euromail.info>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:24:56 -0500
Subject: BRITISH LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS,
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
Ref:BTL/491oX1/04
Batch: 12/25/0340
Date: 15/07/2006

BRITISH LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

DEAR WINNER,

We happily announce to you the draw of the BRITISH Sweepstake Lottery
International programs held on the 10th of July 2006 in London. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 5645600545-188 with Serial
number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7,which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been pproved
to claim a total sum of £2,500,000.00GBP (Two million, five hundred
thousand, Pounds terling) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This
is from a total cash prize of £125 Million Pounds, shared amongst the
first Fifty (50) lucky winners in this category.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls ithin our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon.
In view of this, your £2,500,000.00GBP (Two million, five hundred
housand,Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in
London.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with her. All
participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 companies.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit
to claim your prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.To file for your claim, please
contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your
claims.
Overseas Claims Unit

United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Sir. Terry Martins

Email: claimsagent@euromail.info

Tel: +44-702-405-2724
Fax: +44-870-478-1711

FILL AND SUBMIT TO THE FIDUCIARY AGENT FOR FOLLOW UP

1.TEL:

2.SEX:

3.AGE:

4.NAME:

6.ADDRESS:

6.COUNTRY:

7.OCCUPATION:

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers and Name in any correspondences with us or our
designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this
program.Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Mr. Micheal Ronin
ZONAL ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam