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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:

• 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:
  • "claims 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.
  • +447024039725 (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.
  • claimagentuk06@uku.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "robhj" <robhj@manx.net>
Reply-To: claimagentuk06@fizzmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:46:23 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION!!

THE UK LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Announce, the results of the First Category draws of the year.
Which is part of our promotional draws. Your e-mail address,
attached to ticket number TR/4567/ERW, with serial number
FT/4567382/HG drew the lucky numbers 12, 16, 26,28,30, (40)
and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore
been awarded a lump sum pay out of £200,000(TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
POUNDS), ONGRATULATIONS! You can view evidence that we pay our
winners via the below stated link:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13519248,00.html


Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing
and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your
choice: You are advised to contact MR. Morris brown by email.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your
Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers
in your correspondence with the claims agent.

REF NUMBER: FL/91/95/734/57DP BATCH NUMBER: SRT/1111/DPF
to file your claim.

MR. Morris Brown.
Claims Processing Manager
TEL: +447024039725
FAX: +447092871710
Email: claimagentuk06@fizzmail.com
Email: claimagentuk06@uku.co.uk

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank
you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.ALEXANDRA LORENZO.
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,

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