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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 director" (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.
  • +447040118776 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709126402 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • @yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "p_drawsuk@atmail.com" <p_drawsuk@atmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:26:09 -0200
Subject: Congratulations,You Have Won 2007 Category A prize winner!!! ( Contact Your Claims Agent )

 

 

                                                  

MEMO FROM: THE PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT UK LOTTERY

<<<{ 2007 Prize Award Notification, Category A prize winner!!! }>>>

Congratulations!!  We happily announce to you our Category A prize winner, that You have been selected as one of two winners of the UK LOTTERY first draw of the year 2007 computer ballot draws and thus will be a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of £6,500,000 (Six million five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds only). Winning File Reference number for your prize is PLUK/2030/0181/08; ticket number 101-OIO-77/A.

 

We in the UK LOTTERY is by this program, launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever growing number of participants in our various lottery programs. With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all Winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.

After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize.

 

To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings and 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!!!

 

The transfer of your prize is to be handled by your Claims Director. You are to contact our agent by email within a week of receiving this notice. Please find full contact details below:

 

MRS. SUSAN EDWARDS
FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
LINK TRUST FINANCE LTD
EMAIL:linktrustfinance07@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: +44 704 011 8776
FAX: +44 87 0912 6402

 

Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below:
Draw Serial No: 55/849177
Batch No: 01-A223
Zonal Draw No: A1-101
Grand Draw No: 56748

Please direct all further correspondences and queries to your respective Category Prize Transfer handlers. Quote your Ticket number in any correspondences with our designated agent.

Congratulations Once More.

 

    Yours Faithfully,

MR. RICHARD K LlOYD
(COORDINATOR) 
UK LOTTERY
12 BRIDGE STREET, STAINES
MIDDLESEX TW18 4TP
LONDON UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +44 702 305 3533

 

WARNING!!!...............................................................................................................................
This email and its attachments are confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). This email and its attachments may also be privileged or protected by legal rules. If you have received this by mistake please let us know by replying immediately and destroying the email and its attachments without reading, copying or forwarding the contents.

 

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