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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• 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 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.
  • +447045719309 (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.
  • jimhumphreys_uknl@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uknlm@mchsi.com (Mr. George Miller)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:49:50 +0000
Subject: ATTN:CONFIRM RECEIPT OF YOUR NOTIFICATION!

Uk National Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
17-19 cole Street,
baines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.
Ref: UK/7146x4/99
Batch:042/02xa192

www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

We happily announce to you the Draw 1184 of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online
Sweepstakes International program held on 28th of April 2007. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 023-1111-790-458 with Serial number 5073-12
drew the luckynumbers 11-17-24-28-41-47 and a bonus number of 48 with
thislucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.(bonus
no.42), .You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
US$2.500.000.00 ( Two Million,Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars.)in
cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£2,801,526 shared amongst the first thirteen(13) lucky winners in this
category.
This year's Lottery Program Jackpot is the 5th largest ever in the history of
Europe Sweepstakes. 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 playcoupon. In view of this, your US$2.500.000.00 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 our fiduciary FIDUCIARY AGENT:Sir. Jude
Humphreys Email:jimhumphreys_uknl@yahoo.co.uk Tel: +447045719309

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. George Miller
Uk lotto Co-ordinator.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam