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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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 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.
  • +447024070038 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • eddysperling@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ian frazer" <ugbineofficester@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:18:02 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !


INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS ,
PRIME LOTTO PROMO LOTTERY,
HEADQUARTERS
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
REF: OYL/25041238013/02
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, as a lucky Winners
of the PRIME PROMO LOTTERY, UNITED KINGDOM / INTERNATIONAL, PROGRAMS for
this quarter of the year 2006.Your e-mail address is attached to ticket
number: 023-0148-790-459, with serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky numbers
43-11-44-37-10-43, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category.

As Category "B" winner You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sumof Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand-America Dollars {US$5,500.000.00}
in
cash credited to file REF NO.OYL/25041238013/02. This is from total prize
Money Of US$80,400, 000.00 shared among the seventeen International winners
in this category. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within
our European booklet representative office in Europe as contained in your
file.

To file for your claim, please contact our Category "B" fiduciary agent
Mr Eddy Sperlingt who is your claims agent by providing the necessary
information below:


Email: eddysperling@myway.com
Telephone number: + 44 702 4070038

Full Name: ----------------------------------------------
Contact address:---------------------------------------
Country of origin: ------------------------------------
Sex: -------------------------------------------------------
Age: ------------------------------------------------------
Occupation: --------------------------------------------
Telephone and fax number: ------------------------
Email serial number: --------------------------------
Ticket number: ----------------------------------------

As a category "B" winner, all participants for the free online lotto
version were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through the computer
draw
system and extracted from over 100,000 names / companies from Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North
America and Asia as Part of International Promotions Program, which is
Conducted Bi-Annually.

After the computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only
first seventeen- (17) lucky winners emerged in this category.

This lottery program was organized and sponsored by MSN, Microsoft Inc,
Toshiba, Multi Choice and other corporate Organizations to improve the use
of computer software's and for the benefit of every Microsoft user.


Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
ourpromotions program.

Sincerely,
MR.JOHN FRAZER
The Promotions Manager

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam