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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:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • +2348051177156 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: copa adams <copa_lotteryclaims.winnings@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:54:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ATTENTION:WINNER,


ATTENTION:Winner,
It is a common knowledge that some unscrupulous elements are now using the Net lottery for fraud.
We have several complaints about this on our desk. The board of directors of the Net
lottery is aware of this, and they are doing everything possible to clamp down on these fraudsters.
This they have done also .to tarnish the name of our paying bank company(WOOLWHICH BANK PLC), even using the name of the ACCOUNT OFFICER:MR ANDREW LAMBATH.
I wish to re-affirm strongly to you that the Net lottery have confirmed you as a winner of the Online lottery, and our sole
We advise you to ignore any form of distraction from as they are trying to protect the image of our bank to the detriment of ours.
I will advise you await the response from the bank as i have made the copy of your query available to them.you can call me on this number,


Best Regards
Mr Copa Admas
Fiduciary Agent.
Tell+2348051177156
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.



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