419 scam: "US LOTTERY BOARD"<uslottery@live.com> Re: Contact Mr. Gomez Clark For Your US Lottery Winning Claims

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- ",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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
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!

Fraud email example:

From: "US LOTTERY BOARD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <enquirydesk2009@live.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:46:56 +0100
Subject: Re: Contact Mr. Gomez Clark For Your US Lottery Winning Claims

Dear winner,
Ref: US/9420x2/68
Batch: 074/05/zy369

The U.S national lottery in conjunction with Microsoft is pleased to inform you that you emerged a winner of US$3,000,000.00 (Three million United States of America Dollars) in the just concluded national lottery online draws held on June 1st 2009.

However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of ten winners in the first category for the third prize.

Your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 125,000 website on the internet of which your email address was attached to a ticket number, and it was selected along with others as winners.

Your ref number: US/9420x2/68 attached to your email address, with Serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers 05-11-12-16-17-45-42(bonus no.42), this lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$3,000,000.00 (Three million United State of America Dollars), as (10) lucky winners in this category.

I have finally verified your winnings and it's exactly with what is present on our database. Your particulars have been documented for record purposes. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. Please fill in the verification form provided below.

Verification form
1. Full name
2. Full address
3. Marital status
4. Occupation
5. Age
6. Sex
7. Nationality
8. Country of residence
9. Home Telephone number
10. Cell Phone Number
11. Fax number
12. Reference number
13. Serial number

You are to immediately contact the Fiduciary Agent Mr. Gomez Clark with the Following email address enquirydesk2009@live.com

Thanks,
Mrs. Sarah Moore.

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