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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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.
  • +447024051656 (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.
  • ukl10.07@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: noreply1001@mchsi.com (Award Department)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:56:54 +0000
Subject: REF Nº: UKL/74-A0802742006

The Camelot Group,:
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD

REF Nº: UKL/74-A0802742006
BATCH Nº: 2006UKL-01

YOUR AWARD NOTIFICATION FOR OCTOBER 2007

The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the
E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on
20th October, 2007. Your email account have been picked as a winner of a lump
sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one thousand, nine hundred and
thirty-four Great Britain pounds (£891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited
to file REF NO. REF: UKL/74-A0802742006. This is from total prize money of GBP
£4,459,670.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide
Web through computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database,
union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion
is this year's United Kingdom National Lottery BONANZA FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent:

Mr Fred J. Martin.
Email: ukl10.07@gmail.com
Tel: +44-702-405-1656

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and remittance of your
prize money.

Note below your winning details:

Ticket Nº: 22-1356-4096-988
Serial Nº: A069-07
Lucky Nº: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17
File REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742006
BATCH Nº.: 2006UKL-01

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our
promotions program.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Deborah Hunniford
Online Coordinator,
CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of The National Lottery.

*IMPORTANT* FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:

Carefully fill in the appropriate information in the space provided below for
record purposes to facilitate our immediate commencement of your claims process.

*Name of Beneficiary:
*Address:
*City/State:
*Nationality:
*Sex:
*Email Address:
*Tel:
*Occupation:
*Next of Kin:
*Age:
*Winning Details:

OFFICE USE ONLY
Verified by:________________
Confirmed by: ________________
CLAIMS AGENTS SIGNATURE:________________

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