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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (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 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.
  • +447092876829 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447031896911 (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.
  • watfordclaimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK Lottery Awards" <awards.uknoticedesk0005@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: watfordclaimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:25:41 +0200
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?You_won_a_Prize_of_=A3408,403.00_Pounds.?=


You won a Prize of £408,403.00 Pounds.



The National Lottery
P.O.Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL .. United Kingdom
(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK

Attention: Email Account Holder,

Congratulations!! Congratulations!!
We happily announce to you the draw (#1295) of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,
online promotion International program held on Wednesday 19Th June 2008.

Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated
ticket number: *D1088845113 *with reference number *UK/JA42CTP/08* and
Serial number *ZA5365/3*, Batch number *XA87-2PY*, drew the lucky numbers: *
12-26-34-40-45-19*

This subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. matches 5
lucky numbers plus Bonus.

You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of *£408,403.00 (Four
Hundred And Eight Thousand, Four Hundred and Three British Pounds)* in cash
is credited to file *UKPC/95180*. This is from a total cash prize of *
£8,000,185.00* shared amongst the 280378 with (2) lucky winners in "2nd"
category.

Prize Breakdown
------------------------------------------------------------
Draw 1295 Wed 19 June 08. Winning Numbers 12-26-34-40-45 Bonus 19 .
Jackpot for this draw
£2,778,125------------------------------------------------------------
No of matches No of winners £s per winner Prize fund

Match 6 1 £2,778,125 £2,778,125


Match 5 plus Bonus 2 £427,403 £854,806

Match 5 204 £2,618 £534,072


Match 4 13572 £86 £1,167,192


Match 3 266599 £10 £2,665,990


Totals 280378
£8,000,185


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Additional information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for
draw Ball set used

1
109234 TOPAZ 6

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All World Wide Web valid email addresses used/participants for the online
email version were selected randomly via computer balloting from World Wide
Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 email
adresses of unions, associations, and corporate bodies affiliated to the
National Lottery and are listed online. This Online promotion takes place
via virtual ticket Bi-annually.

Please note that your lucky winning ticket file and number falls within our
European booklet representative office in Watford (UK) as indicated in your
ballot played coupon. In view of this, your £408,403..00 would be released
to you by our payment department.

Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery
prize.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever choice you want to claim your prize. Precautionary measure to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program are in place. Please
be warned!!!
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent and provide him
with your winning email details .remember to quote your reference numbers.

FULL NAME:

ADDRESS:

AMOUNT WON:

TEL:

FAX:

WINNING EMAIL:

TICKET AND REF:

OCCUPATION & AGE:
*::::*
*UK** Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Mr. Dean Fitzgerald
Foreign Service Manager
Watford Regional Centre*

*Tolpits Lane**, Watford WD18 9RN** .United Kingdom
Tel : + 44-703-189-6911 : + 44-702-409-1778
Fax : + 44 709 287 6829
E-mail :* *watfordclaimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk<http://uk.mc283.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=watfordclaimsoffice@yahoo.co.uk>
*

**

"*Do not reply back to the senders email from its source, it is sent via
computer virtual assistance for response will not be read my Human but
computer" contact the fiduciary agents by telephone or email provided above*"

Yours faithfully,
Teresa Marie Roberts. Online coordinator.
UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Copyright (c) 2008 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline. 77635 476378 255667460.

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