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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "irish lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• 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.
  • +447011133308 (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.
  • mail@agentkarl.vossnet.co.uk
  • agentkarl001@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "IRISH LOTTERY" <online1@fidmail.com>
Reply-To: mail@agentkarl.vossnet.co.uk
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:16:45 -0600
Subject: Claims Notification!!!

The Irish 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:



You have been Selected on the Irish Lottery Draw
Held on Saturday, Sat 10 NOV



2007 - 9:17pm, Our lottery program selection has
finally been performedtoday



which was held at the Marina office. IRISH
Promotion is a jointEuro/America



private lottery registered and organized in
accordance with the World Lottery



Regulation act. We the National Lottery
organizing committee are pleased to



officially notify you of the status of your email
application.



An official notification of winning is hereby
issued to you as your email



promotion ticket randomly drew for the Lucky
Numbers: Sat 10 NOV 2007 -



9:17pm -, 02, 17, 21, 26, 32, 40, Bonus 27, which
selected your email as the



2ND winner of our lottery program you have
consequently won the lottery



program in the first batch.Suffice to say here,
We have officially approved a



sum payout of 6,549,977 Euro (Six Million, Five
Hundred and Fourty Nine



Thousand, Nine Hundred and Seventy Seven Euros)
to you as the lottery winner.

You are hereby required to contact your FIDUCIARY
AGENT with below details



for your winning funds.

Mr Bill Karl

Tel: +44 701 113 3308

+44 704 572 6455

Email: mail@agentkarl.vossnet.co.uk

agentkarl001@yahoo.ie

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

FULL NAMES :

AGE:

SEX:

ADDRESS:

COUNTRY:

MARITAL STATUS:

OCCUPATION:

PHONE NUMBER:

FAX NUMBER:

LUCKY NUMBER:

REF NUMBER:

Congratulations from all our staff for being part
of IRISH 2007 LOTTERY



PROGRAM.

Yours faithfully,

Meg Stone (Mrs.)

Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY


___________________________________________________________

Fidelity Communications Webmail - http://webmail.fidnet.com

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam