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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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 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.
  • patrice_agt400@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Lewis Braxton" <europrom2005@netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:22:11 +0200
Subject: FORWARD YOUR DETAILS.

EURO MILLION LOTTERY HEAD OFFICE
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

FROM: UNITED KINGDOM EURO MILLION LOTTERY.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of UNITED
KINGDOM EURO MILLION LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The online
cyber lotto draws was
conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 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 one of two
winners in the category "A" with
the following winning information:
REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83
You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize
of €2,000,000. (Two million euros)
each from the total payout.
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 begin the
claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our
licensed and accredited claims
agent for category "A" winners with the information below:

To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;

Mr Patrice Audrey


Email: patrice_agt400@yahoo.fr

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You
are to keep all lotto
information away from the general public especially your reference and
ticket numbers. (This is important
as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Anybody under the
age of 17 and members of the
affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this
program.

Please note; You are hereby advice to send the asigned fudiciray Agent
details below for Processing of
your Claims;
(1.) FULL NAME
(2.) FULL ADDRESS
(3).NATIONALITY.
(4) AGE.
(5) OCCUPATION
(6)TELEPHONE NUMBER
(7) DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION
(8) SEX
(9) TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(10) MARITAL STATUE
(11)EMAIL ADDRESS
Reply to this confidential email account: patrice_agt400@yahoo.fr

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

Sincerely,
Mrs. Lewis Braxton

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam