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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "british lottery international" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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 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.
  • revjamesflow006@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: williams weber <williamsweber1@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:23:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


The National Lottery P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)


Ref No: UK/9420X2/68

Batch No: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Winner,

National U.K lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address
ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on February 20th 2008
Your email account have been picked as a winner of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.

This results is now released to you on February 24th 2008 and your email address attached in the A Category lucky ball and bonus ball participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advise to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has
been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. All
winning must be claimed not later than February 28th 2008

After this date all funds will be.returned to European Union Treasury as
unclaimed.Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.
Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account
users program. Please contact your claims agent Rev revjamesflow006@yahoo.co.uk to
direct you on how to claim the your prize

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Julie Van Hans, Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.) Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald
Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer.(Chairman). Copyright  2007 British Lottery International

MRS JULIE VAN HANS,


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