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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447031882989 (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.
  • frank-moore12@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jennifer Lucile" <yahooagency@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: frank-moore12@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:15:24 +0700
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY WINNER OF YAHOO LOTTERY PROGRAM 2008


[image: Yahoo! UK & Ireland]

* Yahoo
Lottery<http://lottery.yahoo.com/>
* * Incoperation *
* Baley House, Har Road*
* Sutton, Greater London*
*SM1 4te*
* United Kingdom*
* *

We the *YAHOO COOPERATION MANAGEMENT* *WORLDWIDE *are pleased to inform you
of the today's winners of our annual *YAHOO LOTTO LOTTERY *conducted
in *LONDONA
BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING
PROGRAMS HELD ON 27th june, 2008*.
*
*Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to *WINNER NO: .
-02YM,* with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky
numbers887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in the first lottery
category. You
have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of* GBP ** £845,000.00 (Eight
hundred and Forthy Five Thousand Pounds Sterling) *in cash Credited to *file
REF **# YM35447XN** *this is from total prize money of GBP 12,500,000.00
POUNDS, shared among the *Twenty-five (25) lucky** *international winners
in first and second category.

* YAHOO & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the
people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo
and Hotmail <http://www.hotmail.com/> we select individuals as our winners
through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we
congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

*
* PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
*
* You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim,
Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.
Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw
Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not
claimed within this period will be forfeited.

*
**
*These are your identification numbers:*
*
*
*Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................**YM35447XN*
*Winning number...................**YM09788*
*
*
* These numbers fall within the United Kingdom agent's Location file,
you are requested to contact him and send your winning identification
numbers to him,

*
**
*NAME:Frank Moore Esq
*
**
*E-Mail **frank-moore12@hotmail.com*<http://uk.mc232.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=frank-moore12@hotmail.com>
**
*Phone: +44-7031882989

*
* You are therefore advised to send the following information to the
Cliams Agent to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund.

*
**
*1. Full name.....................*
*2. Country........................
3. Contact Address...................
4. Telephone Number......................
5. Marital Status...........................
6. Occupation..............................
**7. Age....................................*
*8. SEX...............................*

*Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,*
* * * *
*
MRS JENIFFER LUCILE

***
**
*[image: Yahoo! UK & Ireland]*

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam