419 scam: "UK Lotto Organization"<uklotto@winnings.co.uk> Your email address has won you UK Lotto US$4.6 million.

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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")
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (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 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.
- dyroberts42@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK Lotto Organization" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <uklloarganizationn@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:58:01 +0700
Subject: Your email address has won you UK Lotto US$4.6 million.

If you are the rightful owner of this email then you can proudly rejoice and celebrate the recent released result of UK Lottery online winnings draws of November 29, 2014 held in Bangkok Thailand. Your email was attached to Free Ticket Numbers: UKL-93247698JPZ and won on Lucky Numbers: YKA72794857-GDA which legitimately entitles you to claim the sum of US$4,600,000,00 (Four Million, Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars) as a FIRST CATEGORY winnings prize.

You are to contact your Appointed Claims Agent Mr. Thanachanan D. Roberts on email: <dyroberts42@gmail.com> Mr. Thanachanan will give you guidelines on how to claim your lottery prize of US$4,600,000,00 via our available payment methods. Ensure that you enclose your following winnings and personal claims information in your contact email message to Mr. Thanachanan D. Roberts.

Name:
Telephone & mobile numbers:
Resident country:
City:
Address:
Age:
Sex
Winnings Lucky number:
Month of draw:
Occupation:
Job title:

Just in case you are thinking of how you won without entering, then know again that this very draw of November 29, 2014 in which you have emerged as a winner of UK Lottery Organization was a free ticket online email address winnings where thousands of email addresses was collected from almost all world wide websites and used for the online draws/sweepstakes and during winners selection your email address came out among the first ten winners which won you the lottery in the first winnings category and entitles you to claim the sum of US$4,600,000,00.

Best Regards,
Mr. Nelson Cole.
NOTIFICATION/ONLINE CO-COORDINATOR
UK Lottery Organization.

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