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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.
  • +447031854067 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "National Lottery" <andovale@paraisonet.com.br>
Reply-To: claims.office@merseymail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 2:29:47 -0300
Subject: Final Notice !!



Lansdowne Row
Berkeley Square
London, W1J 6H
United Kingdom.
Ref: UK/7803XI/04
Batch: 03/BT25/0306

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING!!
On the behalf of the Uk National Lottery Board, I hereby announce that
your email has been drawn winner of the Draw (#1168) of the online UK
National Lottery program held on Sat 12 Jul 08.Your e-mail address
attached to Ticket Number: 2006680 with Serial number 2378/06 drew the
Winning numbers: 16 27 28 29 30 42 Bonus Ball 43,which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 3 plus bonus.
You are hereby entitled to 500 000GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds)
To file for your claim,Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for
validation.
*******************************************************************
Endeavour to email them the following informations for immediate
processing, verification and legalization of claims in order for
payment to be made to you as required in accordance with our payout
policy.
FULL NAME:
SEX :
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS :
ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY :
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE:(HOME/MOBILE);
AMOUNT WON:
REF NUMBER:
BATCH NUMBER:
WINNING NUMBER:
TICKET NUMBER:
*******************************************************************
Mr.William Cole
FIDUCIARY AGENT, Payment and Release order Department,
UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY CLAIMS PROCESSING AGENT.
OCEANIC BT, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Email; williams_cole@live.com
Tel:+44-703-185-4067.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam