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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)
  • "uk national lottery inc." (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (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.
  • +447045738462 (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.
  • tom_west_dept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Rose Smith <uknl2807@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <tom_west_dept@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:46:15 -0600
Subject: VALIDATE YOUR PRIZE (Contact Our Accreidted Agent)

















UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEAD OFFICE 12 Bridge Street, Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP United Kingdom.Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04Batch: R3/A312-59


WINNING NOTIFICATION/ PROCESSING ADVISE


We happily announce to you the draw (#1127) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on the 14 August, 2007 in UNITED-KINGDOM. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:06-10_11_19_22_46_40, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 6. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £600,000.00 (Six Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash, credited online ktu/9023118308/03, with a consolation prize of a Dell
Pentium 4 Laptopand a UK National Lottery T-shirt This is from a total cash prize of £2.5,000.000.00 was shared amongst the first Four (4) lucky winners in thiscategory ( £200,000 minus for Monument) All participants for this online version were selected randomly from WorldWide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.This promotion takes placeweekly.






LOTTO RESULTS











National Draw WED 14 August, 2007








































































This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem it fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements and most importantly for your own security to avoid situations like this reported on this news extract; http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp be warned. To
file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary and provide him with the details below: To file for your claim of £600,000.00 (Six Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) Please contactour Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION ......THANKS!!!

OVERSEA CLAIMS OFFICEFudiciary Agent,Mr :Tom West
Tel: +44 704 573 8462Fax: +44 704 573 8469
Email:tom_west_dept@yahoo.co.uk
Website:http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp
Congratulations once again from all the staff here. In order to verify your winnings, we need your particulars for record purposes, Below here is a copy of our verifications form, please fill accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings.Note that you are to fill and send the imformations below to your fiduciary agent (Charles Garwood) for immediate release of your funds. Once again congratulations from all the staff.

VERIFICATIONS FORM

FULL NAMES...................................................
CONTACT ADDRESS........................................
TEL/FAX NUMBERS.........................................
AGE.................................................................
SEX............ ......................................................
OCCUPATION...... ..........................................
NEXT OF KIN..................................................
COUNTRY........................................................
AMOUNT WON................................................
WINNING EMAIL.............................................
WINNING NUMBERS......................................
REFERENCE NUMBER....................................
TICKET NUMBERS..........................................
SERIAL NUMBERS...........................................

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, I will send you the contact information of the payment office so you can proceed with the release of your funds.




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WARNING: You might receive similar emails from people who will be asking for your personal informations, if they are not from us please diregard it as they will be using that means to get your information which they would want to use to impersonate you and claim your winnings, we have been witnessing similar cases, be warned!!!
Importantly for your own security to avoid situations like this reported on this news extract;
http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp


View pictures of the last batch of ten online lottery winners in the United Kingdom National lottery,from Japan,Canada,Australia,Ghana,New zealand,South Africa,United States Of America,Italy,Chile,Syria
Congratulations once again from all members and staff of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery programs. Yours faithfully, RICHARD LLOYDS

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Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International Program Intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged,confidential and prohibited fromunauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message,any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
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