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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:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • agentwilliam_nkllottery@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "GERMAN NATIONAL LOTTERY" <mrsheidi6_nkl@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:48:51 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION: PLEASE CONTACT YOUR AGENT AND CLAIM YOUR WON PRIZE!!!

GERMAN NATIONAL LOTTERY NKL6/49
P.O.BOX 5127
Mexikoring 29,
D-22297 Hamburg,
GERMANY
(CUSTOMER SERVICES)

Ref : GNL/NKL/OSA/3764890X2/23
Batch: 074/06/83734369
WWW.NKL.DE

FIRST AND FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the Draw #1089 of the GERMAN NKL 6/49 NATIONAL
LOTTERY program held on Monday, February 19th, 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 8603775966738 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew our Winning numbers: 04, 16, 32, 34, 35, 37 Bonus
Ball [01] which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $2,924, 309.00 (Two
Million, Nine Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Nine US
Dollars Only) in cash credited to your file. This is from a total cash prize
of $8,433,802.00 shared amongst the first To Fifth (1-5) with different
amount won in this category i.e. Match 3 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. Your lucky winning numbers falls within our
Overseas Booklet Representative office in Africa as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your $2,924,309.00 (Two Million, Nine Hundred and
Twenty Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Nine US Dollars) will be released to
you by our Africa Payment Office in Ghana as soon as you contact your agent
for validation purposes. Our agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

To file for your claim, Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.
*******************************************************************
Dr. William Dryden Graham,
OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENT
Phone: +233-27-694-7459
Email: agentwilliam_nkllottery@yahoo.de
********************************************************************
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. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winner will result in automatic disqualification.
Endeavor to contact your agent as instructed providing him the following
information for validation purposes:

First Name: _______________________________
Last Name: _______________________________
Winning Email: ____________________________
Phone Number: _____________________________
Address: _________________________________
Zip / Postal code: _________________________
AMOUNT WON: _______________________________
OCCUPATION: _______________________________
TICKET NUMBER: _____________________________
SERIAL NUMBER: _____________________________
DRAW NUMBER: _______________________________
MARITAL STATUS: ____________________________
SEX: ______________________________________
AGE: ______________________________________

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Heidi Muller
Online coordinator for
THE GERMAN NATIONAL LOTTERY 6/49 Sweepstakes International Program.

NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION MESSAGE. MAILS SENT TO THIS
MAIL BOX ARE NOT MONITORED AND CANNOT BE REPLIED. PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO YOUR
AGENT AS INSTRUCTED.
Congratulations from me and members and staff of The GERMAN NATIONAL LOTTERY

_________________________________________________________________
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