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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:
  • "british lottery international" (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")
  • "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.
  • +447031919793 (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.
  • national_agent111@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: nat lott <nat_lott_01@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: national_agent002@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:08:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: LUCKY WINNING PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO YOUR AGENT




14 FRATON ROAD
FULHAM, LONDON
Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304
AGENT PAT MICHAEL national_agent111@yahoo.co.uk





WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Mr/Mrs/Sir/Madam:

I am Mr.Bryan Smith the fiduciary agent assigned to your case am happy to announce to you the draw of the British Lottery International programs held on the 1st of Sep, 2006 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545-188 with serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000.00GBP (One million, five hundred thousand, Great Britian Pounds) in cash credited to file RPC/9080118308/04 made available from a total cash prize of £75 Million Pounds, shared amongst the first Fifty (50) lucky winners in this category.

All participants were selected randomly from worldwide web sites through a computer drawn system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place montly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £1,500,000.00GBP (One million, five hundred thousand, Great Britian Pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in London as soon as you establish contact.

To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact your claims
agent through our accredited Prize Transfer agents as stated below:

AGENT PAT MICHAEL ,
Please copy the following Emails:
national_agent111@yahoo.co.uk
Tel; +44 703 1919793
When you contact him, please be advised to provide him with the under listed
information as soon as possible:

You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your claims and certificate which will facilitate the release of your winnings.

Your winning price is to the tune of One million, five hundred thousand, Great Britian Pounds.

1. Full names.
2. Phone number.
3. Fax number.
4. Occupation.
5. Sex.
6. Age.
7. Nationality.

You are advised to forward this information as soon as possible to enable us attend to your winnings. Our firm has been co! ntracted to handle payments on your behalf, once we confirm your information, your payments would be processed . Everything was done in such a way that our payments mode would meet the standards set by the Lottery boards.After you have sent down these
information, a certificate will be prepared for you. This is to be your proof of winning from this office to the payment center before they release your funds.
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

All winning must be claimed not later than 28th Mar 2007. After this date all unclaimed funds will be retured. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.You can visit our website for more http://www.uknationallottery.com//rules.php .

Warning!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be from British National Lottery, but are not from British Lottery.
PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO :
CUSTOMER CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT AT National Lottery Services,56t, Crodlon Liverpools London.
Congratulations once more.

Faithfully,
Mr.Bryan Smith.Zonal Co-ordinator.
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm




congratulation!
The British Lottery Promo.


Mr.Bryan Smith.
ZONAL ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR BRITISH LOTTERY COMPANY.























































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