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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.
  • claimsagentdepartment04@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT <claimsagentdepartment04@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:03:47 +0100
Subject: REFRENCE:UK/776090X2/23

FROM:UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
2 LANSDOWNE ROW,BERKELEY SQUARE,
LONDON,W1J 6H,
UNITED KINGDOM.

SUBJECT:WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online UK National Lottery program held on 4th November 2006.Youre-mail address attached to Ticket Number: 8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the Winning Numbers:02,06,18,36,37,44(bonus no.19),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 19 plus
bonus.

You have been approved to claim total sum of £2,500,000 (Two Million FIVE Hundred ThousandPounds Sterling) in cash credited to file.Thisis from a total cash prize of £16,102,556 ,shared amongst the Winners with different amount won in this category.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.

Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your £2,500,000 will be released to you by our affilated bank here in UK.

Our Finance Department will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact our Finance Department.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 deemfit to claim your prize.

To file for your claim,Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for Processing of your winning.
**************************************************
REV. WILLIAMS BROWN
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
2 LANSDOWNE ROW,BERKELEY SQUARE,
LONDON,W1J 6H,
UNITED KINGDOM.
EMAIL:claimsagentdepartment04@yahoo.co.uk
**************************************************
Please do remember,all winning must be claimed not later than two weeks of this notification to enable us register you to our website as a winner.After this time all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.

Note:Remember to send the following detail below to FINANCE DEPARTMENT for validation of your winnings.

FULL NAMES...................................................
CONTACT ADDRESS........................................
TEL/FAX NUMBERS.........................................
AGE.................................................................
SEX..................................................................
OCCUPATION.................................................
NEXT OF KIN..................................................
COUNTRY........................................................
AMOUNT WON................................................
WINNING EMAIL.............................................
REFRENCE:UK/776090X2/23
BATCH:013/05/8394369
WINNING NUMBER:02,06,18,36,37,44
TICKET NUMBER:8603775966738

Yours faithfully,
Alice Dobson(Mrs)
Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

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