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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 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.
  • +447024084463 (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.
  • claimsagentjstokes@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kelvin jones <kelvin@joneskelvin5.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:02:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!! YOUR EMAIL WON


UK National Lottery
2 Lansdowne Row
Berkeley Square
London, W1J 6H
United Kingdom.
Ref: UK/7803XI/04
Batch: 03/BT25/0306

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING!!

We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the online UK National
Lottery program held on the 4th of Qctober ,2006.Your e-mail address
attached to Ticket Number: 2006680 with Serial number 2378/06 drew
the Winning numbers:12 14 16 19 27 32 (bonus no.44),which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 3 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £368,500:00
(Three Hundred and Sixty Eight Thousand,Five hundred pound Sterling) in
cash credited to file KTV/6012118207/06.
This is from a total cash prize of £9,581,000:00 (Nine
million, five hundred and eighty one thousand pound sterling),shared amongst
the 26 lucky Winners in this category i.e Match 3 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 1,000,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In
view of this,your £368,500:00 (Three Hundred and Sixty Eight Thousand,Five hundred pound Sterling) will be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe.
Our European agents will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim 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.
Please be warned!.
You can go to our online result site to confirm your winnings and
also get a prize breakdown:
http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnational.asp>
To file for your claim,Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for
validation.
*******************************************************************
Mrs.Julie Stokes
FIDUCIARY AGENT, Payment and Release order Department,UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY CLAIMS PROCESSING AGENT.
OCEANIC BT, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Email: claimsagentjstokes@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+447024084463;+447024084508
*******************************************************************
Endeavour to email them the following informations for immediate
processing, verification and legalization of claims in order for
payment to be made to you as required in accordance with our payout
policy.
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE:(HOME/MOBILE)
AMOUNT WON:
REF NUMBER:.
BATCH NUMBER:
WINNING NUMBER:
TICKET NUMBER:
MODE OF PAYMENT:(Bank or Certified check) please chose one of the
options .


CONGRATULATIONS ONCE MORE ! ! ! UK National Lottery 2006


Yours faithfully
Kevin Jones
(Online Coordinator for UKNATIONAL LOTTERY)

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