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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "00,000.00" (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 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.
  • agentdense_claims@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY COPORATION <agentdense@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:46:01 +0200
Subject: PROCESS YOUR GRANT !!!


FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT UK NATIONAL LOTTERY COPORATION.

Winning Numbers 11 13 26 34 44 48




AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE.

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 17TH OF OCTOBER 2007 from the Uk national Lottery Programme with the following information:

Date:19/10/2007
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning no: KB8701/LPRC.

Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number; 575061725 8056490902 serial number 6741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows: 11-13-26-34-44-48 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a prize of US$1.100,000.00 (1.1M USD)as second to the highest winners, in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst twenty five lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from One hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies in Australia and some voluntary companies in Africa as part of their social responsibility and poverty alleviation programe to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our representative office in united kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$1100,000.00 will be released to you from our Australian regional branch bureau in Africa.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our NEW YEAR MEGA PRIZE high stakes for US$2.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our Fiducial Agent,Barr. Dense Klense at; (agentdense_claims@myway.com) to file for your claim . Please quote your Date of draw, Reference Number, Batch Number and Winning Number, which can be found on the top-left corner of this message. Also, you should give in your telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize has been released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.All prizes must be claimed on or before 30th OF OCTOBER 2007, otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity homes.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. SIMPLY CONTACT OUR CLAIMS AGENT

Congratulations once again on your winning!

ALSO ENSURE YOU TYPE THE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTLY TO ENSURE SAFE & QUICK MAIL DELIVERY/RESPONSE. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.YOU MUST ENSURE YOU KEEP THIS NOTICE TO YOURSELF UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIMING BY NON-WINNERS AS THIS MIGHT LEAD TO AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION AS WE HAVE EXPERIENCED IN THE RECENT PAST.YOU ARE WARNED!

Best Regards.
ENGR.JOHN GREGORY M.
CO-ORDINATOR.
SIR GODWIN ADOKPAYE S.
DIRECTOR.



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