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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:

• 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 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.
  • +447011130114 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704789499 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "From The Desk Of The Notification Department" <j.lloyds028@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:56:08 +0000
Subject: Winning Notification, Contact Claims(Ref: UK/839030X2/14)

 HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD. W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM.  

                         

REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458

http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnational.asp

                                                 WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today, 13th December, 2006 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held on the 30th of November, 2006 .

Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address, with serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers                                                                                            (bonus no.)

this lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of  £252,000:00 (Two hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file  XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash prize of £2,520,000,00(Two million, five hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling) shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants of this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies listed online. This promotion takes place Quarterly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in the United kingdom as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this,your £252,000,00 (Two hundred and f ifty-two thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment office in the United Kingdom.

Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him/her via electronic mail(email) or other options made available to you.

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 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.

To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent;
Official: Peter Edwards(MR)
Representative office
10 Camelot close thamesmead.
London E280ES
United Kingdom.
Email: 

phone; +44-7011130114
Fax;    +44-8704789499

For due processing and remittance of your prize money.

 

Note: You must contact your claims officer not later than 2 (two) weeks after this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications.

please remember to quote your reference number in every one of your correspondences with your claims officer. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.

 

Yours Truly,
SIR RICHARD K. LLOYD.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).

2006 Uk National Lottery. All rights reserved

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