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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.
  • +447011146444 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704781003 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "The UK National Lottery Prize Award Dept" <WEBDNXIEV401@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:16:58 -0800
Subject: 2007 LOTTERY RESULT ANNOUNCED YOU ARE A WINNER !!

The National Lottery®
165 Fulham Palace Road,
w6 8JB,United Kingdom.

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

WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement
today, 19th Jan, 2007 of winners of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held on the 25th of
Jan, 2007 .

Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your
email address, with serial number 5073-12 drew the
lucky numbers
http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnational.asp
04-07-26-28-39-49 (bonus no.47)


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;
Allen Maxwell(MR)
Representative office
10 Camelot close thamesmead.
London E280ES
United Kingdom.

Tel: +44 701 114 6444
Fax: +44 870 478 1003
Email:claimsagent_allenmaxwell@o2.pl


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).
2007 Uk National Lottery. All rights reserved

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