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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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 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.
  • darrenlloyds_uknl_07@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK LOTTRY FOUNDATION<darrenlloyds_uknl08@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:53:04 -1200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

REFERENCE NUMBER:Ref: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458


CONGRATULATIONS

We are pleased to inform you that your email address is selected
amongst of our January winners, Your ticket number
023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address,with serial number
5073-12 drew the lucky numbers 43-10-42-37-10
43(bonus no.),this lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the
2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
£743,437(SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE THOUSAND FOUR
HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file
XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash
prize of £7,434,370. shared amongst the (10) lucky winners in this
category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants of
this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system
and extracted from close to 125,000 unions,associations and corporate
bodies listed online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in the United kingdom
as indicated in yourplay coupon. In view of this,your £743,437(SEVEN
HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND
THIRTY SEVEN POUNDS STERLING) would be released to you by any of our
payment office in the United Kingdom.

Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact him/her via electronic mail(email) or other options made
available to you.

To file for your claim, please contact your claims agent;
Mr Darren Lloyds-FIDUCIARY AGENT
Email:darrenlloyds_uknl_07@hotmail.com


Provide him with the information below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.

© Copyright 1994-2008 The U.K. National Lottery Inc

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam