419 scam: "United Kingdom Lottery"<info@uklottery.co.uk> ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- ",500,000" (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)
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.
- +447035907707 (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.
- glilberto@yahoo.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "United Kingdom Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <glilberto@yahoo.com.br>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:01:35 -0400
Subject: ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

DATE:17/10/2012
REF NUMBER:475061725
BATCH NUMBER:7056490902/188
WINNING NUMBER:GB8701/LPRC
WINNER NO: 10

ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY

UNITED KINGDOM LOTTERY
Dear lucky winner

We the United Kingdom MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you that you're among our winners of MS-WORD/YAHOO MICROSOFT LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in the UNITED KINGDOM BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 2nd Day of AUGUST 2012

Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 10
with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky numbers 887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in the first lottery category. You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of (Seven Hundred Thousand pounds Only) in cash Credited to file REF NO:MSW-00457YGH this is from total prize money of 7,500,000.00 BRITISH POUNDS shared among the Ten (10) lucky international winners in first and second category.

All participants were selected from Worldwide Websites especially yahoo mail, msn mail,aol mail, icq mail through our Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from 21,000 Names, 3,000 names from each continent (Canada, Asia, Australia, United state, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania , as part of International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, Which is conducted annually for our prominent MS -WORD users all over the world, and to encourage the use of Internet and Computers worldwide.

Your fund has been insured with your REF NO: MSW-00457YGH and will be ready for delivery. It will be delivered to you by one of our Paymaster/claims agent Staff in charge of LONDON Zone (MR. GIBA).

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our LONDON Region booklet representative office in LONDON as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your 750,000.00 BRITISH pounds would be released to you by our payment office in LONDON

Your E-mail address should be used in all correspondence with your claims officer, please Note that, you are to contact your claims officer via email and phone as we are promoting the use of E-mail: (glilberto@yahoo.com.br) +447035907707
Also you have the right to call him to confirm your winnings and government tax payment that is all.

You are to keep your REF NUMBERS and BATCH NUMBER from the public, until you have been processed and your prize money delivered to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and the act of scamming people of their ref number and prizes.

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of the year High stakes of 2 .3 billion International Lottery. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact our claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you from LONDON Accredited Paying Bank.

To file for your claim, please contact Mr. Giba, claims agent with the following details, Reference Numbers, winning numbers, batch numbers,
Provide him with the information’s stated below:
1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Occupation:
4. Marital Status:
5. Age:
6. Country:
7. Nationality:
8. Telephone:

NAME: MR. GIBA
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 12TH DAY OF December 2012.

All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and will be seen as forfeited by you hence will be donated to charity home organization around the world.

Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of Microsoft Cooperation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gate of Microsoft and all his Associates for alleviating poverty round the World.

Sincerely,
Mrs. MARY Smith
(Co-ordinator).

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