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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million pounds" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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.
  • +447031942862 (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.
  • larry.whitedesk@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:26:52 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Contact Accredited Agent Immediately, Congratulations !!!


The UK National Lottery
Themes mead,
London, L70 1NL,=20
United Kingdom.
P.O Box 1010.=20

From: The Office of the Online Coordinator
Promotions/Prize Award Department
UK National Lottery Sweepstakes' International.=20

Dear Certified Beneficiary,
We wish to congratulate and inform you of the result of the just concluded=
final draws (#1068) of the United Kingdom National Lottery International O=
nline Sweepstakes program which is now available for claims. This online cy=
ber lottery draws was conducted on an exclusive list of 67,000 e-mail addre=
sses of individual and corporate bodies picked from the internet by our E-g=
ames Random Selection System Search (ERSSS). Of which your Email address a=
ttached to Reference Number: UK/9420X2/68 was luckily selected during the a=
utomated computer ballot draws as one of the 5 winners in the Match 5 plus =
bonus category with the following winning information below:
=20
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369
Reference Number: UK/9420X2/68

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of =C2=A31,000,000 =
(One million pounds sterling) credited to file KTU/9023118308/03 as this is=
from a total cash prize of =C2=A35,000,000 shared amongst the (5) lucky wi=
nners in your winning category "Match 5 plus". Your prize award has been in=
sured with your e-mail address and will be remitted to you upon meeting our=
requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisf=
actory report. =20

We choose this method of winning notification to our certified winners to =
promote the use of the Internet/e-mail and we have also associated every e-=
mail address used in the draws with a reference number and batch number to =
identify the participants as no tickets were sold for this draws.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
In other to claim your =C2=A31,000,000 GBP( One Million pounds sterling) w=
inning prize, you are required to complete the (VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEA=
SE FORM) below and send it to our under listed licensed and accredited Fidu=
ciary agent via fax or email.=20

Accredited Fiduciary Agent: Mr. Larry White.
Tel: +44-703-194-2862
Fax: +44- 870-479-6344=20
Email: larry.whitedesk@hotmail.com

VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM
Full Names:
Present Address:
Present Country:
Telephone No:
Alternative Email Address:
Occupation.:
Age.:
Gender.:
Nationality.:

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
a.) Due to our security measures to avoid any case of double claiming or ab=
use of this lottery program by other non participants or impersonators, you=
are advised to keep your winning details of this prize confidential from a=
ny third party(including friends and relations) till your claims have been =
processed and your funds remitted to you. Any discrepancies resulting from =
a breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered=
solely by such winner.***Your Winning Information should be released only =
to our accredited Fiduciary agent for legal and security reasons!

b.) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all winning claims; ther=
efore you have limited time to claim your winnings. Failure to claim your w=
inning within the stipulated time frame will lead to the forfeiture of your=
winnings. You are therefore advice to act with the lottery regulations and=
have your prize remitted to you before the forfeiture date.=20

Once again do accept my hearty congratulations on behalf of the staffs and =
members of the UK National Lottery Online Sweepstakes International program=
!=20

Regards; Mrs. Kate RossOnline coordinator for The UK National LotterySweeps=
takes International Program.





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