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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • +447011150268 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704713183 (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.
  • fidagent01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: infowebclaimz@neworleans.com
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:03:06 +0100
Subject: YOU HAVE WON:::CONGRATULATIONS

FROM:WEB-LOTTERY CORPORATION
REF NUMBER: EAASL/7410B1/06
BATCH NUMBER: 675701-ECD02
PO BOX 267
WATFORD, WD18 9TTM
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the
Web-Lottery Corporation program held on the

30th of January,2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number 5366/02 with serial number

5266/02 drew lucky numbers 15-18-23-31-37-49 [38] bonus
ball, which consequently won in the 3RD
category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand

Pounds Sterling Only) or the United States Dollar equivalent
of $921,450USD (Nine Hundred and

Twenty One Thousand,Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars) in
cash/check credited to file number
NTL/65123/002.

All participants were selected through an automated computer
ballot system drawn from over 20,000

companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and
names from the world wide web as part of

our international promotions program which we conduct every
year.No tickets were sold.

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 £500,000 (Five hundred

thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of
our payment offices in Europe.Our

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.This is
part of our precautionary measure to

avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please kindly provide the following
information and send it to our

Fiduciary Agent via his email,who shall clear youas a
winner.

(1)FULL NAMES (2)DATE OF BIRTH(3)SEX (4)MARITAL
STATUS(5)CONTACT ADDRESS(6)PHONE

NUMBER(7)OCCUPATION(8)COUNTRY

Mr.McGary Moore
Information and Payment Bureau,
Foreign Service Department,
London Representative Office.

Tel(1):+44-701-1150-268
Tel(2):+44-703-1908-087
Fax: +44-870-471-3183

Email: fidagent02@uk2.net or fidagent01@yahoo.co.uk

Upon receipt of the duly requested data as shown above,he
shall send to you the contact

information of the paying Office so you can proceed with
effecting the release of your funds.

Note that all prize funds must be claimed not later than 3
weeks.After this date all funds will

be returned to the LOTTERY TREASURY as unclaimed. In order
to avoid unnecessary delays and

complications,please endeavor to quote your Reference
Number:EAASL/7410B1/06 and Batch
number:675701-ECD02 in every correspondence with your
agent.Furthermore,should there be any

change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon
as possible.


Good luck from members of staff of the Web-Lottery
International.

Yours faithfully,
Kimberly Mink

ONLINE SUPERVISOR
WEB-LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam