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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:
  • "irish lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447031975677 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:20:32 -0500
Subject: Congratulations!!! contact me
via-email:procedures_irishnl@live.co.uk

Congratulations!!! contact me via-email:procedures_irishnl@live.co.uk
IRISH NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY
60 Merriman Road,Blackheath,
London SE3 8RZ,England.

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £750,000.00 GBP (seven hundred and fifty thousand, pounds sterling) held on Tuesday, the 4th of November, 2008. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected. your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category \\\A\\\with the following winning information:

Ref Number: UK/9420X2/68
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369

To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;
Dr. Bell Peters (Fiduciary Agent)
Email: procedures_irishnl@live.co.uk<mailto:procedures_irishnl@live.co.uk>
Phone: +44 703 197 5677

Claims Requirements:
Full Legal Name:.............................
Age:..............................................
Gender:.....................................
Occupation:.................................
Phone:......................................
Address:....................................
Country:.......................................
Scanned Copy of Driver's Licence/ Passport if any.



Congratulations once again from me and all staff of the Irish Lottery Board.

Regards,
Sir Maxcon M. Hogan,
Online coordinator for
THE IRISH LOTTERY,Sweepstakes International Program (International Sweepstakes).

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