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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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 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.
  • ukclaimsagent_uknationallottery2@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "horay_27@terra.es" <horay_27@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:08:48 +0100 (MET)
Subject: YOU HAVE WON!!!



Dear Winner
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today,25th of January, 2007, of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held on the 22nd of January, 2007.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:01-14-21-3-35-48, and a bonus number of 24 which subsequently won you the lottery in the second category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £753,437.00 in cash credited to KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £7,534,370.00 shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.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.Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him via electronic mail(email). PROCEDURES FOR CLAIMS: NON UK RESIDENT WINNERS ARE HOWEVER REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE FIDUCIARY AGENT:MR PAUL SMITH
EMAIL: ukclaimsagent_uknationallottery2@yahoo.co.uk
VERIFICATION FORM:
You re required to fill this form:FULL NAME,FULL ADDRESS,SEX, AGE,OCCUPATION, TEL,COUNTRY.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Yours Truly,
Sir Steven Smith.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme)





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