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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.
  • +27839851350 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • john_hectors1@yahoo.com
  • john_hectors2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LOTTORYDRAW LOTTORYDRAW" <lottorydraw02@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:04:19 +0200
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION...Congratulations !!!

The Irishswiss Lottery
P O Box 1010
11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland
(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the IRISH LOTTERY online
Sweepstakes International program held on saturday 11th March,2006. It is
now available for claims and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as
regards this.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:05, 06, 17, 20, 28, 42, Bonus 33 ,
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category A i.e match 5
plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1.35 Million(One
million, three hundred and fifty thousand, pounds sterling) in cash credited
to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £4,419,864
shared amongst the(2)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly.

ELIGIBILITY:

This promotion is offered electronically via the Internet and is open to all
persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email address and who live
in any of the aforementioned countries. This promotion is void in all other
countries.
Principals and employees of the IRISH LOTTERY and its respective Parents,
subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your coupon. In view
of this, your (£1.350.00) Million(One million, three hundred and fifty
thousand, pounds sterling) will be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and 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 claims agent in AFRICA for category "A" winners with the
information below:

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

MR JOHN A. HECTOR.
TEL: +27 83 985 1350
Email: john_hectors1@yahoo.com
or john_hectors2@yahoo.com
CALL HIM FOR MORE INFO CONCERNING THE PROCEDURES OF CLAIMING YOUR WINNIG
PRIZE.

Endeavour to email him immediately the informations below:

(1) Full names...............
(2) Full Address.............
(3) Country..................
(4) Telephone................
(5) Age......................
(6) Winning numbers..........
(7) Email address............
(8) Occupation...............

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings
and also get a prize breakdown:- http:www.irishlotto.net

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE IRISH LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Sir.Cooker Johnson
Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.


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Confidentiality Notice:
Please note that this email, and any files that may be attached to it,is/are
confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or
entity(ies) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any use,distribution,copying
or disclosure by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under
applicable law(s). If you received this email in error,please notify the
sender by return email and delete the original message (making sure it is
also deleted from the Deleted Items folder of your mail client).
Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not
relate to official business of IRISH LOTTERY and insurance shall be
understood to be neither given nor endorsed by IRISH LOTTERY finance and
insurance when addressed to comet finance and insurance clients; and any
information contained in this email is subject to the terms and conditions
of the governing client's contract(s).

THE IRISH LOTTERY
COPYRIGHT © 1994-2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED

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