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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 about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • owenanthony@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "uk lottery" <uknationallottopost@centrum.cz>
Date:
Subject: ATTN


We are contacting you because of the winning ticket number 22-48-67-88-53  which has not be claimed till now, the lottery give and wait for six months before  any claim not made is fulfilled and the money rollover.
 
The ticket is from the draw of the New Mexico Lottery programs held on the 17th of January, 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. Where ticket number: 22-48-67-88-53 was announced the winner in the 2nd category.
 
The unclaimed ticket has been approved to claim a total sum of 18.5Million Euros (EIGHTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS) in cash. This is from a total cash prize of ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS), shared amongst the first hundred (5) lucky winners in this category.
 
I and my colleagues have decided to input you as the winner of the ticket holder 22-48-67-88-53 for the claim. Every legal process to claiming would be followed so as not to bridge any law guiding the lottery board.
 
We do hope that when you receive the money we won’t be in any form of disadvantage in receiving our share of the winnings.
 
Please contact owenanthony@hotmail.co.uk to guild you.
 
Regards

Anti-fraud resources:

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