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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • +447024083914 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Cooker Johnson <cookerjohnson@irishlottowins.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:29:09 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Attn(Batch: 074/05/ZY369)


THE IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 1010
11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the IRISH LOTTERY online
Sweepstakes International program held on Wednesday 6th September 2006. It is
now available for claims and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as
regards this.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 12, 15, 17, 30, 39, 40, Bonus 10,
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e
match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1.3 Million
(One million, three hundred thousand, Euros) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£4,419,864 shared amongst the (2) lucky winners in this category i.e.
Match 6 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly.
ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered electronically via the Internet and is open to
all persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email address and
who live in any of the aforementioned countries. This promotion is void
in all other countries.
Principals and employees of the IRISH LOTTERY and its respective
Parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your £1.3 Million (One million, three hundred
thousand, Euros) will be released to you by any of
our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons,
you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your
claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you
deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!
For more information visit our website for more details
http://www.irish-lottery.net/latest.htm
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
MR. WILLIAMS SPENCER,
Fiduciary Agent.
Email: claimsagentspen@o2.pl
Phone:(+44)7024083914
Phone:(+44)7024083885
Endeavor to email him immediately the information’s below:
Full names...............
Full Address.............
Country..................
Telephone................
Age......................
Winning numbers..........
Email address............
Occupation...............
Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE IRISH LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Sir. Cooker Johnson
Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
THE IRISH LOTTERY
COPYRIGHT © 1994-2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED

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