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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 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.
  • claimsdepartment001@mac.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Helen woods" <englsihirishboard07@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 06:29:22 -0500
Subject: You have won / Contact Mr Jeffery Foley

British Diamond Roulette
P O Box 642
London, United Kingdom
(Customer Services)

ONLINE WEB NOTIFICATION OF LOTTO WINNINGS:

We happily announce to you the draws of Online English/Irish Roulette,an
Online Web international Program held on Monday 5Th Of June, 2006. your
email address attached to ticket/serial number IE6098-05,with serial number
IE535-29 drew the lucky numbers:1-15-24-37-42-50 (bonus no. 33), With Ref.
Number:IES/376O05/77, Batch Number: 05/507/IES360 and subsequently won the
lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 880,000.00 pound
(Eight hundred and eighty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
ISPR/7563409218/05. This is from a total cash prize of 8,680,770.00 pound
shared amongst the first nine (9) lucky Winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 154,000
Unions,Associations and Corporate Bodies listed online.

In view of this, your pound;880,000.00 (Eight hundred and eighty thousand
pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment offices.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. Deductions from WINNING SUM are not allowed until WINNING SUM has
been handed over to the winner. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Online English/Irish roulette
P O Box 642
London, United Kingdom
(Customer Services)
Email: claimsdepartment001@mac.com

All prize money must be claimed in ten working days.After this date,all
funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please always
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence
with your claims agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your
address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Please include your private telephone and fax numbers while replying.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional
program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Helen Woods
Lottery Coordinator
........................................................................................................................
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message including attachments, if any,
is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may
contain confidential and/or privileged material.
The information and material contained in this communication is
attorney-client privileged material. If you are not the intended
recipient,please delete the message and notify the sender.

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