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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")
• 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.
  • italianlottopromo2006@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "flash point" <flashpoint727@msn.com>
Reply-To: italianlottopromo2006@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:24:23 +0000
Subject: You Won - Congratulations

BRITISH ARABIAN/EUROPEAN/AFRICA

NATIONAL LOTTERY

28 TANFIELD ROAD
CROYDON.LONDON
Batch: 12/25/0340
Ref: BTL/101OXI/02 

                                      

 

                      LONDON NOTIFICATION DESK

We happily announce to you the draw (#954) of the BRITISH ARABIAN/European/Africa INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on 1st January 2006 in Milan Italy.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with  Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: (13)-(43)-(06)-(15)-(02)-(40)bonus # (09).Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e December 19th plus bonus.

 

This is from a total cash prize of £2.5Million (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterlings.) shared amongst the (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,associatons and corporate bodies that are listed online

 

In  view of this, your £250,000  (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterlings) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him with the below processing information;

 

Name,Nationality, Occupation,Annual Income,Postal address,Phone Number,Fax Number,Next of Kin,Any identification of an Affix passport in either an international passport or a driving license,Winning Number And Your Winnning E-mail.

 For security reasons, you are advised to file for your prize on and before the 31st December 2005.Your claim will be processed as soon as you contacts your fiduciary agent and your fund will be 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. Please be warned !!!

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

 

NAME:Dr. Eric Ward

E MAIL:  italianlottopromo2006@yahoo.co.uk

 

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the BRITISH ARABIAN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.

 

Yours faithfully,

Jane Parker

Kazeem Hasen

Director.International Promotions Unit,

 

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