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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.
  • mailclaimsagentfox_7@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <ukj_marian35@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mailclaimsagentfox_7@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:11:21 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL HAS JUST WON YOU £750,000

The National Lottery

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch:074/05/ZY369

                                                                                                                                                     ;                

                                                

                         WINNING    NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,

online Sweepstakes International program held on Tuesday 7th November,

2006.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:1416-4612-750

(bonusno.25), with Serial number 3187-17 drew the lucky numbers:31-17-8-28-55

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5

plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of

£750,000(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash

credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

 

  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 arelisted

online. This promotion takes place weekly.Please note that your lucky

winning number falls within our European booklet representative office

in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your

£750,000(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) would be

released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European

agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release

of your funds as soon as you make contact.

 

  For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning

information confidential till your claims 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.

In order to verify your winnings, we need your particulars

for record purposes.Below here is a copy of our verifications form,

please fill accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings.

Once again congratulations from all the staffs.

        

            VERIFICATION FORM

BENEFICIARY (FULL NAME) Mr/Mrs/Miss: .......................

ADDRESS: .........................................

CITY/ZIPCODE: .....................................

STATE: ...........................................

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: ............................

AGE: .............................................

SEX: .............................................

OCCUPATION: ......................................

ANNUAL INCOME: ...................................

TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER(S): .........................

E-MAIL ADDRESS: ..................................

AMOUNT WON: ...........................................

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL(IF ANY):

........................................................

........................................................

Upon receipt of the duly requested datas,i`ll send you

the contact information of the payment office so you

can proceed with effecting the release of your claims.

 

CONTACT OUR FIDUCIARY AGENT

Agent: Mr Michael Fox.

Email 1: Mailclaimsagentfox_7@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

 

Yours faithfully,

Marian Jones (MRS).

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program

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