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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")
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • +447024073894 (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.
  • mr_jamesabraham@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: maria <maria@controldeycome.com.br>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:04:05 -0300
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SELECTION AND WINNING COMFIRMATION.

THE UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Uksweepstakelotto Award Team
Ref: UK990/678
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
17 May, 2007.
Dear Lucky Winner,

The prestigious UK Intersweepstakelotto has set out and has sucessfully organised a Sweepstakes in marking the New Year anniversary and in our effort to promote uksweepstakelotto we rolled out over £100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) for our NEW YEAR Draws running from January to June 2007. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web users all over the regions of the world.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers. Uksweepstakelotto are now the largest Internet lottery company and in an effort to make sure that Google Search engine remains the most widely used program, Google and Aol ran an e-mail beta test for uksweepstakelotto for an electronic draw for random email users online.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 0098876 with serial numbers UK099/876 and drew the lucky numbers 9-21-17-39-23-13(20) which subsequently won you £1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw.

You have therefore won the entire winning sum of £1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 16th of May 2007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.

Please be informed by this winning notification, that you are to file your claims,you are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize.To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent as directed below:

Barr. Abraham James
Uksweepstakelotto Promotion Award Team.
Email: mr_jamesabraham@yahoo.co.uk
Phone:+44-702-407-3894
http://www.interlotto.com/

And send the following to him:
(1) Full Names,(2)Residential Address,(3)Phone
Number,(4)Occupation,(5)Age and (6)country.

Our special thanks and gratitude to ukweepstakelotto Team and its associates.We wish you the best of luck .Thank you for being part of our promotional award program and commemorative New Year Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely,
Mrs.maria Wood.
Head Customercare Service
Uk international sweepstakelotto Promotion Team

NB:Any claim not made before Seven (14) working days from date of notification indicates that the winner has voluntarily forfeited his/her winnings.

Anti-fraud resources:

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