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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:
  • "overseas subscribers agents" (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")
  • "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447031822130 (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.
  • oxford_claimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Online Notification Desk <www_regional7032@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:17:29 +0000
Subject:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Congratulations!!_your_email_won_=A3764,124.00_Prize.?=



The U.K.National Lottery P.O.Box 1010 Liverpool L70 1NL. (customer service)NOTIFICATION DESK Attention: Email Account Holder, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! We happily announce to you the draw (#1209) of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online promotion International program held on Saturday 25th August 2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 4405600545 766 with reference number ST/5T-0110-FPZ/07 and Serial number 5368/02 ,Batch number XA887-2P, drew the lucky numbers: 03 - 18 - 21 -36 -38- Bonus -20. Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. matches 5 plus bonus and one star. You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of £764,124.00 (Seven Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, One Hundred and Twenty Four Pounds) in cash credited to file UKPC/9080144308/05. This is from a total cash prize of £14,688,650 shared amongst the 542882 with (02) lucky winners in "2" category. Draw 1209 Sat 25th Aug 07 Bonus winning number 03 - 18 - 21 -24-36 -38- Bonus -20.------------------------------------------------------------Jackpot for this draw £2,508,729 ------------------------------------------------------------No of matches No of winners per winner Prize fund Match 6 3 £836,243 £2,508,729 Match 5 plus Bonus 2 £764,124 £1,528248Match 5 354 £1,362 £482,148 Match 4 17822 £59 £1,051,498 Match 3 324136 £10 £3,241,360 Totals 342323 £14,688,650-----------------------------------------------------------Additional informationJackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for draw Ball set used 3 107735 AMETHYST 5 ------------------------------------------------------------All participants for the online email 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 and users of microsoft internet explorer. This Online promotion takes place Bi-annually as a conjuction with the UK Lottery and Microsoft to encurage Internet Usage.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Oxfordshire (UK) as indicated in your ballot played coupon. In view of this, your £764,124.00 (Seven Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, One Hundred and Twenty Four Pounds) would be released to you by our regional payment offices. Our Fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate release of your funds as soon as you contact them. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential from the public till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you choose to receive 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 agent and provide him with your winning email adress for validation .remember to quote your reffrence numbers. UK Lottery Fiduciary Agents: Mr. Eric Sylvester Foreign Service Manager Overseas Subscribers Agents 2A Islip Road Oxford, London OX2 7SP United Kingdom Tel : + 44-703-182-2130Fax : + 44-870-4717-313E-mail : oxford_claimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE.
"Do not reply back to this sent email, contact the fiduciary agents by telephone or email above " Yours faithfully,
Teresa Marie Roberts(Mrs.) Online coordinator. Copyright © 1994-2006 UK Lottery International Promotion Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline . 77635 476378 255667460.
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