419 scam: "Kings Gregsson"<maria@equinoxe.com.ar> British International Lottery Headquarters

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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")
- "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)
- "johnfitcher@administrativos.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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: "Kings Gregsson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnfitcher@administrativos.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 03:47:46 +1100
Subject: British International Lottery Headquarters

British International Lottery Headquarters
Customer Service
Ref: EU/9210Y4/84
Batch: 062/09/XT528

FINAL AWARD RESULTS:

We happily announce to you the draw of the British International Lottery Sweepstake Online Lottery International programs held on the 05 of OCT 2011 in BRITISH UNITED KINGDOM Your e-mail address attached to ticket Number: lucky Numbers:4-12-16-19-22-66, which subsequently won you the lottery in The 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $15 million (Fifteen million five hundred thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03.This is from a Total cash prize of US$ 15 Million Pounds Sterling shared among the first Ten (10) Lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and Extracted from over 100,000 companies.

This promotion takes place annually please note that you?re lucky Winning number falls within our European booklet representative office In United Kingdom as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your $15 million (Fifteen million five hundred thousand Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by our payment office in British Our African agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the Release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information Confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to You in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted Abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary Agent:

Name: Johnson Fitcher
E-Mail: johnfitcher@administrativos.com

You can as well call to verify or ask question about your lottery win:

Here are the informations needed for you to fill out:-

NAME ===========
CITY: =============
COUNTRY: ==========
DATE OF BIRTH: =============
PROFFESSION FILTERED: ==========
NATIONALITY: ============
YOUR ADDRESS: =============
TELEPHONE: =========
DATE: ============
REFERENCE/BATCH NUMBER ===========

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, your etc in any correspondences with our Delivery or us firm Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery Program.

Sincerely,
Kings Gregsson.
United Kingdom International Lottery Co-coordinator

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