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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:
  • "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 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.
  • agent_ana_williams001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "The Heineken Promotion/ Notice Centre" <centre1_notice00015@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: agent_ana_williams001@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:12:11 +0000
Subject: NOTICE LETTER

WINNERS ONLY:

HENEIKEN SEASONAL PROMO.
P O BOX 1010,
MACHESTER, L90 1WL,
UNITED KINGDOM.
(Customer Services).

Ref: HCP/956/W
Batch: 12/25/0244

 

October 30th, 2006.

Dear Winner,

THE HEINEKEN END OF YEAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION RESULT.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Heineken Manchester Zone A3, UK Annual Promo. The online Heineken International Annual Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 50,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data:

Ref Number: HCP/956/W
Batch Number: 12/25/0244
Ticket Number: 025-11464892-750

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £185,000 (ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) each from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company for THIRD category winners with the information below: You are also advised to give the following informations to the claim's agent via email.

 

1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4.Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

Sister Ana Williams,
HEINEKEN INT-L CLAIMS AGENT
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.
Atlantico Sistemas de Informático
Email: agent_ana_williams001@yahoo.co.uk

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your claims agent.

You are to keep all promo winning information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).

Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

All replies must be directed to agent_ana_williams001@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Smith Carpenter.
Heineken Games/Lottery Coordinator.

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