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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:
  • "fudiciary" (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.
  • onlineagent_ukclaimsdepartment@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <coordinator@thenotificationonline.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:54:18 +0100
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

THE UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
P O BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref No: UK/9420X2/68
Batch No: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#1114) of the UK INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Sat 26th
August,2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/06 drew the lucky numbers: 10-17-24-31-42-49 (bonus no.05), 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
£500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to
file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £9,500,000 shared amongst the (19)
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.

This promotion takes place weekly. Please 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 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European 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 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.

To file for your claim, please contact our
Fudiciary Agent: Mr. David Roy
Official Email: onlineagent_ukclaimsdepartment@yahoo.co.uk

NOTE: The lucky numbers are the lotto numbers.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Richard K. Lloyd
Online coordinator for THE UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam