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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:
  • "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.
  • +447031970826 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712641191 (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.
  • claims.officer@telkom.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "claimsdept.trop@terra.es" <claimsdept.trop@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:07:09 +0100 (MET)
Subject: LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION



TROPPOLOTTO INC.,
UK OFFICE
406 Bury New Rd., Whitefield, Manchester,
U.K.


Dear Winner,

Winning Notification

We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected as one of the lucky winners of the TroppoLotto end of year promotional international draws held on the 16th of JanuaryDecember, 2007. Your email address attached to ticket number 11-06-09-571-66 was among the 15 winners drawn in the second category (2nd category winner).

Winners email addresses were drawn from a randomly selected pool of 1,500,000 email addresses gathered from the world wide web. Consequently, you have been approved for a lump sum pay out of GDP430,000.00 [Four Hundred And Thirty Thousand Great Britain Pounds] Credited to Ref No.TL/PR/90571/36 Batch No. FFP/TL/01/09 and Serial No. 100571. Note that winners are only eligible for claims once.

Due to foreseen and unforeseen discrepancies expected in this inaugural European promotional, be advised to keep the vital winning details private and confidential. This is to avoid double claims amongst other anticipated glitches that may and could lead to your prize being diverted.

ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered only electronically via the internet and is open to all persons from age 18 years and above. This promotion is void where prohibited.

Principals and employees of the TroppoLotto, and its respective parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.

CLAIMS PROCEDURE:

You are advised as a matter of urgency, to contact the underlisted licensed and accredited claims agency for the processing of your prize awards winning;

MR. REYES FEREIRA
CLAIMS MANAGER.
Pine Gate & Associates,
66 Cannon Street, London,EC4N 5BN
U.K.

Tel: +44 703 197 0826
+44 703 184 1551
Fax: +44 871 264 1191
+44 871 264 1082
Email add: claims.officer@telkom.net


IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Note that there exist a periodic condition on all claims process, failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings
forfeiture.Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of
claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are adviced to keep your winning details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be bourne solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy taken on employment.

(d) By this lottery prize awards winning, you acknowledge your acceptance to be added to our lottery master player database.

(e) By this prize winning, you agree to receive periodic mailings which will include, but are not limited to; Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements, Adverts and Offers we feel would be of interest to our master players, from all the sponsoring entities.

(f) By this winning, you understand that you reserve the discretion to be removed from any such mailing list which automatically disqualifies you from this and subsequent lottery entries. Removal instructions are on every mails.

(g) We hereby do solemnly pledge to maintain the privacy of our master players/lucky winners database and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or the illegal use of information about our players/winners.

(h) In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with your agent.

(i) Should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

We encourage you to play and win many prices including our jackpots of $1,000,000 and more during this yuletide season on our website www.troppolotto.com

Congratulations.

Sincerely,

Debbie Preton.
Coordinator,
UK Promotions draws.







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