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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",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)
• 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.
  • +2348039296725 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC" <rev.frank99100@live.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:17:07 -1200
Subject: Dear sir/madam.


THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC
YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom.

Dear Winner,




YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the
9TH OCTOBER, 2008 from the Yahoo International Lottery
Program. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of
winners using their e-mail addresses, your e-mail was
attached to ticket number 47061725 468 5649091, serial
number 9141137425. This batch draws the lucky numbers as
follows 8-13-29-37-32 bonus number 19, which

Consequently won the lottery in the First category. You
hereby have been approved a lump sum, Three Hundred Thousand
Great Britain Pounds (GBP300, 000)

All participant were selected through a sorting and
filtering program designed by Dr Philip Emegwali from
50,000,000 (fifty million) e-mail addresses from the web
because you have once visited one of Yahoo! sponsored sites.
This is part of our international promotions program which
is conducted monthly to promote the use of the internet
with the world as a global village. This Lottery was
promoted and sponsored by YAHOO! in conjunction with the Uk
national lottery board.

YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that
subscribes to yahoo mail, gmail, hotmail, aol, netscape, and
others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only
Fifty people will be merge for winnings. we only select
fifty people every Month as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying, we are
congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people
that won for this month.

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 7 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 and retrieved.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
booklet representative office in UK as indicated in your
play coupon. In view of this, your won prize will be
released to you by any of our payment Banks in Ghana . Our
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him through
the email address or telephone numbers as directed below.

Contact Person: Rev. Frank White.

Email: rev.frank99100@live.com
Phone: +2348039296725


With the following are you’re Particulars.

Security Code: AL/FEB/HJ09

Ref: 7898963525
Batch: ALLINC 9764943902/122

Winning no: FGNGB2461/LPR

SECURITY

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this
information confidential from the public until your claim is
processed and your prize released to you. Please do not
reply to this Email again. Contact your claim agent. Any
breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification.

NOTE: IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS EMAIL AND FORWARDED YOUR
INFORMATION TO OUR OTHER EMAIL ADDRESS, PLEASE WE WILL
ADVISE YOU TO RESENT IT TO THIS NEW ONE EMAIL ADDRESS ABOVE.

MANAGEMENT,
YAHOO LOTTERY.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam