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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:
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • worldlinkcourierservice@yahoo.com.au

Fraud email example:

From: "uksweepstake" <uksweepstake@babbalu.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:14:04 GMT
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

UK-LOTTO ORGANIZATION:
Customer Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We happily announce to you the draw of the Uk-Lotto
Sweepstake Lottery International programs held in
Bangkok-Thailand on the 31st of December ,2005 Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky
numbers:07-12-23-26-29-44 which subsequently won you the
lottery in the first category. You have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of £2,367,834(Two million,
three hundred and sixty seven thousand, eight hundred and
thirty four British Pounds sterling) which is approximately
usd4.2m, from total cash prize of £23,678,340 was shared
amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web
site through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 companies.

The World Link Courier Express Services has been given the
Contract to deliver all our winners cheque to the address of
the respective winners.
You are to contact Mr Alex Hua, the Managing Director World
Link Courier Express Services on this email address:
worldlinkcourierservice@yahoo.com.au
So that your winnings cheque would be delivered to you.
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote
your full names,telephone number,Winnings numbers [such as
batch,ref,serial and lucky winning number],your country and
address where you want to receive your winnings cheque in
your contact mail to Mr Alex Hua.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of
this program and thank you for being part of our promotional
lottery programm.

Sincerely,

Mr John Scott,

UK-LOTTO ORGANIZATION,
ON-LINE NOTIFICATION MANAGER.


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