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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:
  • ",000,000" (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!
• 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.
  • +447024044683 (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.
  • sir_ronaldbaker@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "British Lottery Corporation" <brlcorption@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: bltycorp@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:09:15 -0700
Subject: Re: immediate payment notification


Dear Internet User,


This is to officially notify you that, you have been chosen as the lucky
winner of 600,000.00GPS (six hundred thousand British pounds sterling) only
in our 5th year British Lottery Award Promo held yesterday and result
released today. Your winning file has been routed to our legal department
for authentication and payment release. All e-mail participants were
selected through our Windows Live ballot system drawn from over 20,000
company e-mails and 30,000,000 individual email addresses

and names from all over the world. This is part of our global financial
assistance for humanitarian development. However, no tickets were sold but
all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for
representation and privacy.


For your instant payment, you are summoned to urgently contact our legal
representative "Sir Ronald Baker" on his contact email below: -


Name: Sir Ronald Baker
Telephone: +44 702 4044 683
Fax Number: +44 700 596 4306
Email: sir_ronaldbaker@hotmail.com
Best time to call: 10:00am to 5:00pm London time.


You are needed to forward to him, your winning details below to help to
facilitate the processing of your claims, release of your winning
certificate and payment. The information you are to fill and forward to him
includes:
Ref. Number: 9028/0286/3089
Batch Number: 670399201-UK48
Serial Number: 441705-926
Ticket Number: 15791038-21500
Amount won: 600,000.00GPS
For the Month of July 2008.
1. Full names :..........................
2. Phone number :.....................
3. Fax number:.........................
4. Occupation :.........................
5. Sex :....................................
6. Age :....................................
7. Address :..............................
8. Country :...............................


Do kindly contact our Legal Officer (Sir Ronald Baker) and your winning
prize will be rewarded to you with immediate effect. We congratulate you !.
Remember, all winning must be claimed on or before three weeks from the date
of this publication. Any prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed. Please note in order to
avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Should there be any change
of address do inform our Legal Officer as soon as possible.


Yours in service,
Mrs. Susan Bright
Public Relations Officer
British Lottery Corporation
London, United Kingdom.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam