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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: Laetitia Derenne <Laetitia.Derenne@bibalex.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:11:39 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YOU_WON_-=A3500,000,00..?=

Euro Millions are Affiliate of Italy (IT).
Sir/Madam,CONGRATULATIONS:
YOU WON -£500,000,00.. We are pleased to inform you of the result of Euro Millions, which was held on the 17th Sept 2008. Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 01 10 29 30 45 49 (03-08 ), with Prize Number (match 1): 106000007 drew a prize of £500,000,00 per winner. This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake.You will receive the sum of £500,000,00 per winner from our authorized bank via electronic money transfer or through our courier company via parckage delivery.You are requested to contact your claims clearance officer Mr MANCINI ROSSI,to assist you with the processing of your winnings and subsequent payments.we advice that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your bank draft sent directly to your designated delivery address as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by the general public.For your £500,000,00 prize, You will be required to quote your lucky number,for confirmation on your winnings. All winning must be claimed not later than 3weeks after reciept of this mail. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed prize for good cause. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your assigned fiduciary Agent via email
MR. MANCINI ROSSI
EMAIL: verification.mancini-rossi@live.com<mailto:verification.mancini-rossi@live.com>
NAME:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NUMBER:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
Congratulations.Yours Faithfully,
MISS ALANNIS KENDRICK..
Coordinator: Euro Millions.
Program Warning!!! Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be impersonator using our names and addresses, but are not from the EURO LOTTERY ONLINE PROGRAM PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO CUSTOMER CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT.
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