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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:
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • ukclmdpt@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY <ukclmdpt@aim.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:11:55 -0300
Subject: ONLINE WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR £1,500,000

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL
Ref:SGIL/763276/03
Batch:074/05/ZY3

RE/AWARD BRITISH NOTIFICATION DESK

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are happily announce to you the new year draw (#1107) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Sat 05 Aug 2006. It is
yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 5647558765545 125 with Serial
number 1037 drew the lucky numbers:3,11,13,18,26,31
(bonus no. 35), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e
match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000 (one million
five hundred thousand great British pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023119843/06. This is from a total cash prize of £10,500,000 shared amongst
the first seven (7) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.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.

In view of this, your £1,500,000 would be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe.To file for your claim, please contact our Fiduciary Officer:


with this Email: ukclmdpt@aim.com
So that Mr.Anthony Smith can get in contact with you.

He will be in the best position to prepare your Winnings Certificate and all
other relevant documents/paperwork You would be required to show an instrument of
identification when cashing your cheque i.e. Drivers license or International
passport. 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 part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. Please be warned.

The Lottery Company Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under the
number 2949433, are both owned by Take That Ltd., also a private company
registered in England and Wales, but under number 2147008. Take That Ltd. are not
connected with Camelot plc or any other lottery operator in any way -
independence of information is therefore guaranteed.

Take That Ltd. have also published The International Lottery Magazine, The
National lottery Book, Playing Lotteries for the Big Money and other publications
even before the UK National Lottery commenced, in line with our other gambling
related titles. Representatives of the company appeared on the BBC lottery
programme as their numbers 'expert' for eight weeks, wrote a weekly lottery
column in The Daily Mail as well as being featured as their "lottery guru". Ad
hoc articles and series of articles have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times,
The Daily Express, The Sunday Mirror as well as a host of local and international
papers.

If you have any complaints or comments on the running of the lottery games,
please address them to the lottery operator directly. Similarly, questions
regarding lottery grants should be directed to the relevant governing body. But
for queries and comments on this site, please feel free to contact us. We'll do
our best to help.


VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM

YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR SEX:
YOUR ADDRESS:
YOUR COUNTRY:
YOUR FAX:
YOUR PHONE NUMBER:
YOUR OCCUPATION:
YOUR COMPANY'S NAME:
YOUR AGE:
YOUR REF NUMBER:
PREFERED METHOD OF RECEIVING WINNINGS (CHEQUE OR BANK TRANSFER):


Good luck from me and members of staff of the U.K

Yours faithfully,

Blair Long.
Online Co-ordinator for U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program

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