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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:
  • "fudiciary" (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.
  • +447024035775 (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.
  • franklinadamsdept1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Grace Walker" <gracewalkerdept5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: macpetfide@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:42:57 -0500
Subject: CALL TO CONFIRM WINNINGS +447045705248

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UKNL/05/8256/53219/QE327
Batch: UKNL5/A115-07
RE/AWARD BRITISH NOTIFICATION DESK

Dear Lucky winner,
We are happily announce to you the new year draw (#994) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on 8/2/2007,It is yet
to be unclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial
number 1037 drew the lucky numbers: (07)(14)(29)(37)(41)(45)(04) (bonus
no.05), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match
5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000 (one
million five
hundred thousand great British pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £10,500,000 shared
amongst the first seven (7) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus
bonus.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 weekly. Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in
Europe as indicated in your play coupon.

In view of this, your £1,500,000 (one million five hundred thousand Great
Britain pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process
to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till
your claims 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 your fudiciary agent and
call him immediately for verification

FRANKLIN ADAMS
Alpha Consultants Lawfirm & Schmidtz Associates
(Solicitors Advocates & Arbitrators)
TEL: +447024035775
+447045705248
Official Email: franklinadamsdept1@hotmail.com
Fudiciary Agent/Payment Officer.

Endeavour to email/fax him your full names, winning numbers,email/billing
address,
telephone and fax numbers immediately. Congratulations from me and members
of staff of THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.


Yours faithfully,
MRS.GRACE WALKER
Online coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Assisted by : UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION

Copyright © 1994-2006 The UK National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service -
Guideline

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