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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)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +447045732817 (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.
  • mspencer_uknl03@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uklotterypromo02@mchsi.com (UK LOTTERY BOARD)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:23:57 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION!!!


Uk National Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
17-19 cole Street,
baines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.
Ref: UK/7146x4/99
Batch:042/02xa192
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

We happily announce to you the Draw 1067 of the UK NATIONALLOTTERY,online
Sweepstakes International program held on 8th of august 2007. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 023-1111-790-458 with Serial number 5073-12
drew the lucky numbers:03-09-12-13-20-43 ,and a bonusnumber of 33 with this
lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.(bonus
no.07),


You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2.500.000.00 ( Two
Million,Five HundredThousand United State Dollars.)in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £2,801,526 shared amongst
the firstthirteen(13) lucky winners in this category.

you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims
is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manneryou deem fit to
claim 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
FIDUCIARY AGENT:DR.MARK SPENCER
Email:mspencer_uknl03@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447045732817
(For HLP)

REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/7146x4/99
BATCH NO: 042/02xa192
FULL NAME...............................................
WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS..................................
FULL ADDRESS:...........................................
SEX:................................
AGE...................................
OCCUPATION.............................
TEL.......................
MOBILE................
COUNTRY................................

Yours
Sincerely,
Mr.Richard.K.Lloyds
Uk lotto Co-ordinator.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam