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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:

• 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.
  • +447031846358 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: williams weber <williamsweber1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:21:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FILL THE FORM AND GET BACK TO US


Dear Winner ,

Congratulations for being part of this lottery program The Lottery program is fully based on Electronic Selection of winners using their-mail addresses.

Your email address was attached to batch number; Batch No: 074/05/ZY369 is, Ref Number, UK /9420X2/68.Which consequently won the lottery in the second category.


We have attached the form for payment to enable us obtain all your information so as to open a file which will be forwarded to our corresponding finance firm for the delivery of your prize money.

You can download the attached form or if you do not have scanner, you can possibly fill the below form and send back to us.
Congratulations.

NAME......................................


BATCH NUMBER.................................................


REFERENCE NUMBER...................................................

AMOUNT WON..................................

DATE OF BIRTH........................................................

RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:.......................................

SEX..............................................................

MARITAL STATUS.....................................................

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN...................................................

OCCUPATION..........................................................

COMPANY NAME......................................................

TELEPHONE..........................................................

EMAIL.....................................................

Best Regards

Rev James FLOW

Tower 42, Level 35 25 Old Broad Street London EC2N +447031846358

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