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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:
  • "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.
  • +447024060648 (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.
  • coordinator_watsongordon@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jeffreywalkin@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:44:33 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20NOTIFICATION=20?=

FROM OFFICE OF THE MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
THE EMAIL LOTTO, UK.

DEAR WINNER,

WINNER OF THE EMAIL LOTTO & MICROSOFT FREE INTERNET DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of our TENTH
FREE INTERNET DRAWS of THE EMAIL LOTTO OF UNITED KINGDOM AS SPONSORRED BY
THE MICROSOFT COMPANY INC. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged
a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS, which is part of our promotional draws.
The draws were held on 25st August 2006 and results are being officially
announced today. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 30,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from
Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part
of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number 55-9-478, with serial number
52-67 drew the winning numbers 05 17 23 26 42 48 and consequently won in
our TENTH FREE INTERNET DRAWS CATEGORY.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of �1,000,000(one million
great British Pounds), which is the winning payout for each winners. This
is from the total prize money of �10 million shared among the 10 winners
in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our International Funds Transfer agents,
which is our payment center and has been insured in your name. In your best
interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names especially impersonators
of any kind, we advise that you keep the entire details of your award strictly
from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/no
participants of this program.

To file for your claim, please contact our Coordinator:

THE COORDINATOR
MR WATSON GORDON
TEL: +44-7024060648

Email:coordinator_watsongordon@yahoo.co.uk

Provide him with all your information as listed below:

1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Mobile Number:
11.Fax Number:
12.Email Address:

That way your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents/paperwork
can be prepared for you. You would be required to show an instrument of
identification when cashing your cash prize i.e. Drivers license or International
passport. Failure to do so may warrant immediate disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and
Batch

Numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your correspondences
with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: REF: SMBUK/7899/8604/04HFS
BATCH NUMBER: G5/B212-8

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

Sincerely,

MR JEFFREY WALKINS
THE MANAGER,
The EMAIL LOTTO
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification. Please be informed that you did not receive this mail
by accident. Be informed that the draw was done through random computer
ballot draws of Internet users all around the globe.

Contact our coordinator via email immediately.

Anti-fraud resources:

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