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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.

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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "royal home electronic lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447031907003 (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.
  • buckinghamfinanceagency@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "lucky\.winners" <lucky.winners@itelefonica.com.br>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:43:55 -0300
Subject: You emerged our winner




DEAR SIR/MADAM,

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR EMAIL LOTTO WINNING

We are pleased to inform you from ROYAL HOME ELECTRONIC LOTTERY of the
announcement today,12th April 2006 as one of the lucky winners of
The ROYAL HOME ELECTRONIC LOTTERY draws, held on the 1st Of March
2006 as part of our E-business promotional draws end.

Participants in the draws were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia, Europe, Middle East,
as part of our electronic business Promotions.

You qualified for the draw as a result of your visiting various
websites we are running the Electronic-business promotions for.
You/Your Company email address, attached with REFERENCE NUMBER:
BMX=200X-19Z4-DMX, BATCH NUMBER: YY77-XOO with serial number 215-18
drew the lucky numbers 12, 19, 27, 30, 34, 52, 89, and consequently
won the 2005 1ST Quarter draw.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £950,000 in
cash, which is the winning payout for First category winners. This is
from the total prize money of £10,500,000.00 shared among the seven
winners in the First category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. ( BUCKINGHAM
FINANCE AND AGENCY Limited),As we have notified them. Due to the mix
that may arise from emails of winners and numbers we ask that you
keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants of this program. We hope with a part of your prize, you
will participate in our End of year (2006) high stakes £1.1 billion
International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact our paying agent who also will be
your claim agent immediately:
MR.PETER BOTHA
MANAGER BROKERAGE SERVICE
BUCKINGHAM FINANCE AND AGENCY
Email:buckinghamfinanceagency@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44-703-190-7003
Fax: +44-207-900-2480

For due processing and remittance of your prize money,
Remember you must contact your claim agent not later
than 25th Of April 2006 after this date, all funds
will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers provided below in every one of your
correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER:BMX=200X-19Z4-DMX
BATCH NUMBER:YY77-XOO
Also to begin your Claim send to your claims agent the following
information by email.
1) YOUR BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS and AMOUNT WON
2) YOUR FULL NAME AND AGE
3) YOUR ADDRESS
4) A COPY OF YOUR ID (PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LISCENCE)
5) CONTACT TLEPHONE, MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,

THE LOTTO AWARDS MANAGER,
ROYAL HOME ELECTRONIC LOTTERY
Hunter Street
LONDON
MK18 1EG
United Kingdom

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result todisqualification. This is a computer generated message.
Please do not reply to this mail since we will be unable to answer
these replies.Contact your claims agent by email fax or phone.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam