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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")
  • "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 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.
  • agentlotto@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mikeconsultant@consultant.com

Fraud email example:

From: "FREELOTTO COMPANY" <rojarmore@consultant.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:59:43 +0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED
FREE LOTTO COMPANY
Free lotto Headquarters:
Customer Service/Award Dept.
www.freelotto.com
Ref No:LT/210/06NL
Batch No:72001-25704

YOU ARE SELECTED AS ONE OF THE LUCKY WINNERS OF THE FREE LOTTO INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS DRAW HELD ON THE 15th APRIL, 2006. WITH EMAIL ADDRESS ATTACHED TO TICKET NUMBER: 2147160054/200 WITH SERIAL NUMBER: 9118/06 WHICH DREW THE LUCKY NUMBER: 44 10 29 20 34 45.
THEREFORE YOU HAVE BEEN APPROVED TO CLAIM A TOTAL SUM OF US$1,000,000.00(one million United States Dollars) IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE FTC/6080418308/06/ASZ. THIS IS PART OF THE CASH PRIZE OF US $50 MILLION DOLLARS SHARED AMONG THE LUCKY WINNERS IN THIS GRAND CATEGORY.
THIS SEASON LOTTERY PROGRAM JACKPOT IS THE LARGEST FOR FREE LOTTERY.

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR LUCKY WINNING NUMBER FALLS UNDER OUR ASIAEAN BOOKLET REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN ASIA. IN THIS VIEW, YOUR US$1,000,000.00 (one million United States Dollars)
WOULD BE RELEASED TO YOU BY OUR PAYING BANK WHILE OUR AGENT WILL IMMEDIATELY COMMERCE THE PROCESS TO FACILITATE THE RELEASE OF YOUR PRIZE SOON AS YOU MAKE CONTACT WITH THEM.
ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED RANDOMLY FROM WORLD WIDE WEB SITE THROUGH COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM AND EXTRACTED FROM OVER 10,000 COMPANIES. FOR SECURITY REASONS,
YOU ARE ADVISED TO KEEP YOUR WINNING INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL TILL YOUR CLAIMS IS PROCESSED. TO FILE YOUR CLAIM PLEASE CONTACT OUR FIDUCIARY AGENT WITH THE BELOW DETAILS.

******************************************************************
NAME: ROJAR.A (MR)
ASIA DPT CONSULTANT
Email: agentlotto@sify.com
******************************************************************

NOTE THE PROCESS AND CLEARANCE PROCEDURES MUST BE COMPLETED WITHIN A PERIOD OF 30 DAYS AFTER THE WINNING ACCEPTANCE TO AVOID IMPERSONATION AND DOUBLE CLAIM AND
YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS AND ABOVE TO PARTICIPATE FOR THIS PROGRAMME. CONGRATULATION ONCE MORE ON BEHALF OF ALL MEMBERS AND STAFF OF THIS PROGRAM .

YOURS SINCERELY,
MRS. ROSE WILLIAMS

( COORDINATOR)
_______________________________________________________________________

THE FREE LOTTERY IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY THE MICROSOFT CORPORATION, INTEL GROUP, DELL, TOSHIBA AND A CONGLOMERATION OF OTHER INTERNATIONAL IT COMPANIES.
THE FREE LOTTO INTERNET DRAW IS HELD QUARTELY EVERY YEAR AND IS SO ORGANISED TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF THE INTERNET AND COMPUTERS WORLDWIDE.

Prize Claim Instructions:

If you are a Grand prize winner, 2nd Prize winner, 3rd prize winner or 4th prize winner, you must forward your results email showing the win to us evidencing
that you have won either a FreeLotto Jackpot prize, or a 2nd Prize ($300), or a 3rd Prize ($5.00) or a 4th Prize ($1.00). The subject line of this email must only
contain your FreeLotto Confirmation number (Transaction Serial Number). The TSN is located in your FreeLotto Confirmation email.
Please save these confirmation emails until you know if you have won, i.e. the results of the FreeLotto drawing. You must keep your TSN.
Failure to provide your TSN within 30 days of date of win shall result in prize forfeiture. The body of your email must also include your first name, last name, address, phone number and date of birth.
Forward your email to <mikeconsultant@consultant.com>

NOTE: DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR WINNING INFORMATIONS TO ANY FREELOTTO MEMBER STAFF, CONTACT ONLY YOUR CLAIM AGENT.

FreeLotto Winning Draw Results for April 15, 2006

$10,000,000.00 SuperBucks 3 28 10 9 15 18 44
$1,000,000.00 Jackpot 44 10 29 20 34 45
Pay Off Your Mortgage 8 37 38 19 18 29
$10,000.00 FastCASH 4 18 16 19 5 2
$100,000.00 Giveaway 13 24 3 21 37 40
Win a Car 31 25 6 8 2 27

Anti-fraud resources:

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