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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • enaskevoo2006@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • enaskevoo2002@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?kelvin=20collins?= <enaskevoo2006@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: enaskevoo2002@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:02:09 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Congratulations


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : enaskevoo2006@yahoo.fr

FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

THE MARINA OFFICE,

ST PETERS YACHT BASIN,

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,

NE6 1HX ENGLAND .

UNITED KINGDOM

REF NO: EGS/2551256003/03

BATCH NO: 14/0017/IPD


RE: 2006 AWARD NOTIFICATION, FINAL NOTICE.


We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our RECENT LOTTERY


DRAWS HELD on the 27 of april 2006. Your e-mail address attached to

ticket number:1123 34 38 48 49 46 750 with serial number:2113 ? 05 drew

lucky numbers:1315 ? 22 ? 37 39 which consequently won in the 2nd

category. you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of

£2,500.000.00 Pounds.Note that All participants in this lottery program

have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from

over 2,000 companies and 3,000 individual email addresses from all

search engines and web sites. This promotional program takes place every

last week of april, and is sponsored by eminent personalities like the

Sultan of Brunei,Bill Gates of microsoft inc and other corporate

organisations. This is to encourage the use of the internet and

computers worldwide. £80,400,000.00 Pounds shared among the seventeen

international winners in this category. Your fund is deposited with a

corresponding affiliate insurance company, insured in your name. Due to

mix up of some numbers and names,we ask that you keep this award

strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your

money remitted to designated account of your choice. It is part of our

security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by

participants on this program.To begin your claim, please contact your

claim agent;MRS. ANN TAYLOR by email at: enaskevoo2002@hotmail.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to your account. Remember,

all prize money must be claimed not later one month from the date of

notification.After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications, please

remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your

correspondences with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change

of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part

of our promotions program. Sincerely,

kelvin Collins




- kelvin collins

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam