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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.
  • +448709744762 (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.
  • ukagent_winning_claim@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lottery Notification" <filet_garry002@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:15:56 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON LOTTERY X800,000!

Headquarters, No 56 Richards Bay Road,
South Finchley. London N19 0RG.
United Kingdom.RC No. 6036151.

YAHOO IN CONJUNCTION WITH HOTMAIL.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON £800,000!

22nd/03/2007

Attention; Sir/ Madam

YahooMail.Com, In Conjunction with HOTMAIL.COM, gives members random cash
prizes. your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winner’s
accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that
you have won prize money of £800,000 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) for the
annual lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger.com

YAHOO, collects all the mail id of the people that are online on Yahoo Mail
.com, and hotmail. com among the millions that subscribe to yahoo, hotmail
we only select five people every year as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for
been one of the people selected. All participants were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses
from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted
annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more details (e-mail address) falls within our Europe
representative office in United Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon
and your prize of £800,000 will be released to you from this regional branch
office in LONDON UK.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification and winning numbers.
Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact the Judiciary Agent

Dr. Mark Peterson

Tel: +0044 703 186 0874
Tel; +0044 703 186 1157
Fax; +44 870 974 4762
Email; ukagent_winning_claim@yahoo.co.uk

You are required to forward him with the following details:
1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADDRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
6. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)
7. MARITAL STATUS
8. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

As soon as you contact your Claims Agent, he will advise you on what to do
in order to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant
or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs., Filet Garry (PHD PROGRAM CO-ORDINATOR.
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

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