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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:
  • "cashier's check" (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • +447045705292 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr John" <mrjamebrown7@myway.com>
Reply-To: mrjohnjacson7@myway.com
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:52:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: you have woon


Dear Winner,The Local Organizing Committee of the EuropeanChampions League is glad to announce to the world the giving away of the sum of FIFTY MILLION POUNDS to 100lucky email addresses all over the world.This promotion is in Appreciation of our International Support for the past Soccer Events and the correspondent earnings at the stock market which wasfar beyond our projected quarterly earnings.Be informed that all winners in this program have beenselected randomly through a computer ballot systemdrawn from over 1,500,000 companies and individuale-mail addresses database. Your email address happenedto be one of the lucky winner of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSANDPOUNDS among the Hundred email addresses chosen. Inother to claim your prize, you will have tofill the form below and send it back to us forverification and then you will be informed on how your Cashier's Check for the sum which has already beendeposited with your email contact.We use this opportunity to thank all our
Sponsors/Contributors of this program: AIR EMIRATES,ADIDAS,NIKE,MCDONALDS,COCA-COLA,UNITED AIRLINES,BMW,PEPSI,VIRGINATLANTIC,UMBRO-SPORTLINE,FUJIFILM,AIR-ASIA,BARCLAYS,VODAFONE, NOKIA N-SERIES, LUCOZADESPORT, AND A HOST OF EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDERS FORALLOWING THE USE OF THEIR DATABASE FOR THE DRAWS ANDALSO FOR THE PROVISION OF SECURE (SSL) EMAIL DELIVERY SYSTEMS.NAME:............................................................AGE:.............................................................SEX:.............................................................ADDRESS:.........................................................EMAIL:...........................................................TEL.:............................................................OCCUPATION:......................................................COUNTRY:.........................................................Please you are advised to complete the form and sendback to us for prompt collection. You are
automatically disqualified if you are below 18 yearsof age This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is intended for the use of the individual orentity to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is privileged,proprietary,confidential and exempted from disclosure.If you are not the intended recipient, you arenotified that any dissemination,distribution orcopying of this communication is strictly prohibited.Please contact your claims agenet for furtherinformation.Mr John Jacson.Email..mrjohnjacson7@myway.comTel.,+447045705292Sincerely,mr James Brown

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