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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  • +447024054012 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +2348055202749 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • jjfelix88@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • uklottery_cash@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "felix james" <superjjfelix88@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jjfelix88@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:15:26 -0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION(THIS IS NOT A JUNK MAIL)

UK LOTTO LOTTERY INC.

Date: 02/11/2006

Ref: 4758961725

Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188

Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS ....................

  

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the  

2ND Of NOVEMBER- 2006 from the UK International Lottery programme.

Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their

e-mail addresses .

Your email was attached to ticket number;

47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 7-14-43-47-32 bonus number

25,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby

have been approved a lump sum pay of 100,000 Pounds in cash credit

from the total cash prize of

800,000 Pounds shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.

All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn

from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United

States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, (Africa office)and Oceania as

part of our international

promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some

multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the

citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European

representative office in Manchester,England, as indicated in your

play coupon and your prize of

100,000 Pounds will be released to you from this regional branch office

in Manchester.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year

high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Simply contact our Fuducial agent, DR FELIX JAMES, at

jjfelix88@yahoo.com to file for your claim . Please

quote your reference, batch and winning

number which can be found on the top left corner of this

notification as well as your

full Name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information

confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your

prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid

double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by

non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the  20TH OF November - 2006

otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to

charity.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards

Carol Smith(co-ordinator)

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS

AGENT:jjfelix88@yahoo.com

BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO

DISQUALIFICATION.

  

General Enquiries

  

Street Address:

UK LOTTERY LOTTO HOUSE

265 Randle Drive,

South West,74362w

Manchester

England.

Tel:+447024054012

(Mondays-Fridays 9am-5am)

Contact by email:uklottery_cash@yahoo.com

Claiming A Prize:

  

AFRICAN AGENT OFFICE.

DEPARTMENT:

Email:jjfelix88@yahoo.com

Tel:234-80-55202749

                                              DR FELIX JAMES.

                                             FUDICIAL AGENT.

  

                                  UK LOTTO LOTTERY SUPERDRAWS!!!

    

                        National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy.

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