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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.

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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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 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.
  • +31642359616 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • fsstrust@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rita brook" <ritabrook@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:13:40 +0000
Subject: Award Prize.

Luckyday Loterij Netherlands
Laan van Hoornwijck 55,
2289 DG Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

Attention: Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the annual draw of 25-02-2006,
of our International email Lottery Programs. The Luckyday lotto draws was
conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref Number:
LU/00032/91/61/006/NL; Batch Number: 02/A21/32-57 and Ticket Number: 11/
14/27/30/31, with serial number 1102259035 drew the lucky
numbers 04-14-19-34-44. You are therefore to receive a cash prize of
$1,500,000.00. (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
from the total payout, This is from the total prize money of 18,900,000.00
US Dollars (Eighteen Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars) shared among
the international winners in our 1st - 4th categories. Your prize award has
been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon
meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations
and satisfactory report.

To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to
contact our Certified and Accredited claims processing officers for category
"A" winners, you are advice to provide him with the following information:-

Your
Names:.........................................................................
Telephone/Fax number:..................................................
Nationality:....................................................................
Age:..............................................................................

Contact claims processing office through address below:-

Luckyday Notary Office:
Amsterdam The Netherlands
Tel. No: +31-64-235-9616
Fax. No: +31-84-755-6915
Email:fsstrust@netscape.net

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 30th March 2006,
thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to
quote your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims
will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs. Rita van Brook.
Promotion Manager.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam