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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "processing fee" (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • johnsonclaim@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: LUCKYDAY-- E- MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL <lotteryclaimw@aim.com>
Reply-To: johnsonclaim@aim.com
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:08:34 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATIONS


From: The Vice President (Operations)
Luckyday E-mail Lottery International
Promotions/Prize Claim Award Department.
Batch No: LD/CL56/456312112148924/3759323/18763
Ref No: GY1/RT876/3871729871876539/466310/88383
Frankfurt-- -Branch-- Germany
ATTN: LUCKY WINNER,
This is to inform you of the release of the E-mail Lottery Ballot
International/World Gaming Board held on the 12th of August 2006:Your
Email
address attached to Ticket number: 458765873313 with Serial number:
2784251965
drew the lucky numbers of :02 -11- 17- 63- 39- 51 -83 which
consequently won the
lottery in the 1st category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of one Million
Euros (€1,000,000m) in cash, which is presently deposited in the
care of an endowment manager in your favour as sole beneficiary, and covered
with an Insurance Policy.
For your clarification, your winning number was selected amongst an
array of
20,000,000 individual and company e-mail addresses of Microsoft windows
application users in all part of the world, by means of a computer
ballot
system.
Due to mix up of some Numbers and addresses, we request that you keep
your
Winning Information confidential until Funds claims have been processed
and your
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
To begin your Lottery Claim, please contact our Fiduciary Agent
immediately on
the Contact information provided below, quoting your Reference number
and batch
numbers in all correspondences.
Name: Samson Kingsley (MR)
Online Coordinator.
Luckyday Lottery Int'l
international Sweepstakes Program.
Luckyday Payment Office,
Frankfurt--Branch.Germany
E-mail: johnsonclaim@aim.com
All winnings must be claimed not later than 25th of August 2006. After
this
date all unclaimed Funds will be rolled-over in the next stake. Once
again note
that in order to avoid unnecessary delay and Complications. endeavor to
quote
your Reference number and batch numbers in all correspondences. All
lucky
winners must pay 660Euros processing fees and there will be no
deduction of
price to avoid payment errors.
Sincerely,
Steve Williams.
Vice President (Operations)
Luckyday E-mail Lottery International
NOTICE-- FILL THIS FORM AND SEND IT BACK TO US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
CLAIMS/PROCESSING APPLICATION FORM
Your application for the claim of lottery winning prize will be duly
processed,
and payment be made upon certification. Hence, carefully fill in the
appropriate
informations in the space provided below to facilitate our immediate
Commencement of your claim/processing and remittance.
Full Name of
Beneficiary....................................................................................
Occupation...............................................................................................
Address:....................................................................................................
City/State:...........................................Country:.........................................
Nationality:........................... Sex: ......... I.D/
PassportNo.:...............................
Tel:.....................................................
Fax:.....................................................
Next of
Kin:...................................................Age:..........................................
AMOUNT WON
In
Figures:..................................................................................................
In
Words:...................................................................................................
Lottery Ref NO.:.........................................Batch
No.:....................................
Lucky No.:............................................... Ticket
No.:.......................................
Serial No.:................................................. Lottery
Date:
.................................
Claim Expiration
Date:.................................................................................
......
CLAIMANT'S SIGNATURE: ------------------------------ DATE
----------------
PROCESSING FEES OF (660 EUROS) SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY EUROS
OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Verified by: ------------------------------------- Confirmed by:
-------------------------------­
AGENT'S SIGNATURE.................

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