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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 about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claim 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.
  • +31620282459 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "sharon pinkett" <alert0987@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: FUZZYSINFOAGENT@BOXLOTTO.COM
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:27:04 +0000
Subject: DRAWS NEWS ALERT

DRAWS NEWS ALERT
TOMB RAIDER LOTTO INCORPURATED INTERNATIONAL
FROM THE DESK OF BOARD TRACKING ONLINE TICKET
AGENT OFFICE: FUZZY, S INFO AGENT INTERNATIONAL
EMAIL: FUZZYSINFOAGENT@BOXLOTTO.COM

REG: NR. 909SL3000NL

It is our great pleasure to inform you the result of the just concluded
final draws of the National Tomb Raider Lotto Incorporate promotion
programmed. The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
550,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were
sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as
one of five winners in the category "B" with the followings: Ref Number: NLI
/ BA65TY-N21, Batch Number: NLI VR9 / 0058, Ticket Number: AL18 / BQ1709,
Serial Number: TY0094, Lucky number: 090 52 011

You, as well as other winners are to receive a cash prize of $1,750,000.00
(ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED& FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) each from the total
payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and it
will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory
obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin
the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our
licensed and accredited claim agent for category "B" winners with the
information’s below:

FUZZY, S INFO AGENT INTERNATIONAL
Mr. Cason Van Lunneker
FOR: MR AUDIE VAN JOHNSEN
TEL: +316-2028-2459 Fax: +318-4730-5161
Email: FUZZYSINFOAGENT@BOXLOTTO.COM

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all
winning information away from the general public especially your reference
and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not
be entertained).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!
VALERIE JOHNSON (MRS) Online coordinator
Tomb Raider lotto Incorporated Program 2006

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam