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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • neil_handyk2002@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: english_megadraws2005@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:17:20 +0200
Subject: English Mega Draws National Lottery






The English Mega Draws National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM


Winning Numbers 50 18 22 24 32 33 bonus 21



WINNING NOTIFICATION:


We are happy to announce to you the draw (#953) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Online Sweepstakes International program held on 12th of December,2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5647560054 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 50-18-22-24-32-33(bonus no 21.), which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category bonus no 21.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £900,000 (Nine Hundred
Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £1,000,000 shared among the first four (4)
lucky winners 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 monthly.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our London Representative
Office in Liverpool United Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your
prize sum of £900,000 (Nine Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling)

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Simply contact our fiduciary African Claim Agent where you own Email Account
was selected as winner, He will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your winning price money as soon as you contact him.His contact
details is shown below:

Mr.Neil Handyk
61-67 South'ampton Row,
Bloomsbury,South-Africa
Email: neil_handyk2002@yahoo.com


All cash prizes MUST be claimed before 12th of January.2007, otherwise all
funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organisation,
motherless babies and refugee camps world wide.


For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
till your cash prize is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever means
you wish to recieve your cash prize.


Endevour to contact the agent with your winning numbers.This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Please be warned!!!!

Congratulations!!! once more on behalf of members and staff of the BRITISH AWARD
LOTTERY 2006.



Congratulations once again.

Yours in service,

Origoni Luis. Esq

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam