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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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")
  • "claims 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 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.
  • dranthonyegar_agent@excite.com

Fraud email example:

From: silver british promotion <silver.britishpromotion7@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:35:38 -0800
Subject: Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Silver British Promotions

P O Box 657

London, United Kingdom

(Customer Services)
**

WEB NOTIFICATION OF LOTTO WINNINGS:

We happily announce to you the draws of Silver British

Promotions Lottery, an Online International

Sweepstakes Program held on Friday 7th October, 2005.

Your email address attached to ticket/serial number

IE6098-05, with serial number IE535-29 drew the lucky

numbers: 1-15-24-37-42-50 (bonus no. 33), With Ref.

Number: IES/376O05/77, Batch Number: 05/507/IES360 and

subsequently won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum

of £880,000.00 (Eight hundred and eighty thousand

pounds sterling) in cash credited to file

ISPR/7563409218/05. This is from a total cash prize of

£8,680,770.00 shared amongst the first nine (9) lucky

Winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected

randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer

draw system and extracted from over 154,000 Unions,

Associations and Corporate Bodies listed online.

In view of this, your £880,000.00 (Eight hundred and

eighty thousand pounds sterling) would be released to

you by any of our payment offices.
**

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your

winning information confidential till your claims is

processed and your money remitted to you in whatever

manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part

of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming

and unwarranted abuse of this program. Deductions from

WINNING SUM are not allowed until WINNING SUM has been

handed over to the winner. Please be warned. To file

for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Silver British Promotions

P O Box 657

London, United Kingdom

(Customer Services)

Email:dranthonyegar_agent@excite.com

All prize money must be claimed in ten working days.

After this date, all funds will be returned as

unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and

complications, please always remember to quote your

reference and batch numbers in every correspondence

with your claims agent. Furthermore, should there be

any change of your address, do inform your claims

agent as soon as possible.

Please include your private telephone and fax numbers

while replying.

Congratulations once again from our team of staff and

thank you for being part of our promotional program.
**

Sincerely,
**

Mrs. Helen Woods

Lottery Coordinator
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Note: Anybody under the age of 17 is AUTOMATICALY

DISQUALIFIED and Any BREACH of CONFIDENTIALITY on the

part of the WINNERS will result to disqualification.
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Anti-fraud resources:

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