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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • +447040104368 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447005802861 (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.
  • ches.donald@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Heather Burne" <b_heath2006@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:21:08 +0000
Subject: PRIZE NOTICE FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER-Ref. No.-RNL/051/652659968/UK

FROM: PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF UK ROYAL NATIONAL LOTTERY, WINNING NOTICE FOR
SILVER STAKE WINNER-Ref. No.-RNL/051/652659968/UK

Attention:

We happily announce to you that UK Royal National Lottery has just concluded
its final draws of it's periodical promotional program. An exclusive list of
email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked
by automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.
Your email address emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes
category as email addresses were soughted, from a total number of 1,000,000
email addresses draw from all over the globe(Europe, North and South
America, Middle East and Africa). After an automated computer ballot of our
International Promotions Program, only SEVEN winners emerged in this
category and therefore each are to receive payouts of EU1,500,000.00(ONE
MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) from the total of EU10,500,000.00
(TEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO). However, every email address
selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket number, after the cyber
lotto selection, the below ticket and reference numbers emereged as one of
the lucky winners in the above category. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.-RNL/051/652659968/UK
Ticket No.-RNL87868UK

For your prize claim process, we have employed the service of an
lnternational Trust firm. They are to handle the transfer of your cash prize
of EU1,500,000.00(ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) in line with
our procedures and upon your directions. Your prize has been insured to its
full value with your email address and will be transferred to you under
their professional service.

To immediately file your claim, please contact our Fudiciary agent Cooperate
Trust Securities Company, below are the contact information of their
FINANCIAL DIRECTOR;

MR. DONALD CHESTER
Finance Director,
Co-operate Trust & Securities Company
United Kingdom
Email: ches.donald@yahoo.com
CC: donaldchester@atmail.org
Phone:+44-704-010-4368
Fax: +44-700-580-2861

In your best interest, you must initiate contact within 7 days of receipt of
this correspondence, Cooperate Trust & Securities Company, are to handle all
matters with regards to claiming of your prize money. You are also advised
to send a copy of this email to your claims agent MR. DONALD CHESTER, when
contacting him. You may be required to provide any of the above information
during the process of collecting your prize. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double/multiple claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program, Please be warned!!!

We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in
any of our international programs in the nearest future and we will
appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the
entire UK Royal National Lottery. Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Sincerely,
Heather Burne,
Promotions Manager,
Royal National Lottery,
United Kingdom

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