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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")
  • "claim 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.
  • +2215971333 (Senegal, probably a 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.
  • zumaadams33@yahoo.ca
  • agentzumaadams33@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Uk Lottery <uklotto1_14@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: agentzumaadams33@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:51:28 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONTACT AGENT. ZUMA ADAM



Secure and Confidential Entry to Official Lotteries Worldwide. This Year the UK National Lottery Will Pay Out
£1.7 Billion . Enter Now for a Chance to Win Your Share of this Huge Prize Money - From a Multi-Million Dollar Jackpot to Thousands of Smaller Cash Prizes.



CONGRATULATIONS,
Ref: BTL05/010208/2005
Batch: 070569/100
Winning no: BT870/lpc


UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

WINNING NOTIFICATION:


National U.K Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 1st May 2006. Your email account has been picked as a winner of EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.


This results is now released to you on 8th June, 2006 and your email address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 with Serial number 5368/06 drew the lucky numbers: 02 10 11 29 31 49, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have been therefore approved a lump sum pay of £ 800,000 (Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in cash creditfile ref: BTL06/010208/2006 from the total cash prize of £3,200,000 Three million Two Hundred Pounds shared amongst four 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 and Africa as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. It is yearly programme sponsored and financed by Uk govt to help its citizens.This year(2006)coca-cola inc in association with other mutinational companies collectively and bill gate of Microsoft sponsored the programme to give out money for the loyal customers.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African booklet representative office in Dakar Senegal as indicated in your play coupon (5647560054) In view of this, your £800,000.00 would be released to you by our agent payment offices in Dakar Senegal West Africa.

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 precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!.


For payment, please do provide with the following informations: And
send to our Fiduciary Agent.

WINNER'S VERIFICATION FORM
WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA First Name.: [input] *

Middle Name.: [input]
Last Name.: [input] *



Gender.: MaleFemale



Month Of Birth.: MonthJanuaryFebuaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
Day: Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Year: [input]


Marital Status.: SingleMarriedDivorced
Nationality.: [input] *
Religion.: [input]
Occupation.: [input]

Address 1.: [input] *
Address 2.: [input]
City.: [input] *
State/Province.: [input] *
Zip Code.: [input] *



Mobile phone No.: [input] *
House Phone No.: [input] *
Fax No.: [input]
Email Address.: [input] * eg. zumaadams33@yahoo.ca



WINNING INFORMATION
Batch Number.: [input] *
Winning no.: [input] *
Refrence Number.: [input] *
This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: [input] No: [input]



To claim your prize, please write to the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIM AGENT with your details as stated below
CLAIM AGENT
MR. ZUMA ADAM.
: agentzumaadams33@yahoo.ca
TELEPHONE NUMBER:+221 597-13-33.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Roland Smith
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.




CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable

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