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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:

• 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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • +447031915877 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448715049411 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Terry Desk <terrydesk168uk@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <terrydesk@aim.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:11:03 +0200
Subject: Mr. Terry Bledsoe



Mr. Terry Bledsoe THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY P O BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Ref No: UK/7420X5/68 Batch No: 084/05/ZY36R9 AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION:We are pleased to inform you of the result of UK NATIONAL LOTTERY 2007, which was held on 16th May, 2007. Your e-mail address attached ticket number:57475600645 188 Serial number 368/06 drew the lucky numbers: 09-20-22-24-27-28 (bonus no.12),that drew a prize of £738,309 (Seven Hundred And Thirty Eight Thousand, Three Hundred & Nine GBP sterling). This is from a total cash prize of £8,003,667 shared amongst the Eleven (11)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 357378 unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake.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 is to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent. Fudiciary Agent: Mr. Terry Bledsoe Official Email:terrydesk@hotmail.comTel: +44-703-191-5877 Fax: +44-871-504-9411 NOTE: Endeavour to go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown:- http://national-lottery.co.uk/p/results.do Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY. Yours faithfully, Mr.Richard K. Lloyd Online coordinator for THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International Program.
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