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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")
• 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.
  • claimsverificationunit001@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "THE DESK OF FROM THE NOTIFICATION DEPARTMENT" <noticedepartment301@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:28:25 -0500
Subject: Ref: UK/9420X2/68 CONGRATULATIONS!!! UK NATIONAL LOTTERY (WINNING NOTIFICATION)

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#1037) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on 17th october.
2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky number.

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match
6
plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£141.022(One hundred and forty one thousand,twenty-two pounds sterling)
in
cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize
of
£1,833,286 shared amongst the (13) lucky winners in this category i.e
Match
6 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 £141.022(One hundred and forty one thousand,twenty-two
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 partof our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your
claim,
please contact our fiduciary
Agent:Mr.Peter Edwards
EMAIl: claimsverificationunit001@hotmail.com
Phone+44 -70111-30110
Fax :+44- 870 478 9499
:+44- 870 478 9501

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences in the email you are
sending
to our designated agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.
Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK

NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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