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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 by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447040110646 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • julianholybarristers@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Julian Holy" <julianholybarristers@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:36:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Julian Holy Solicitors (Claim Form).
































































JULIAN HOLY SOLICITORS114A CROMWELL ROADLONDON - ENGLAND

TEL:+447040110646

Dear Winner,Reference Number:1037231IIPrize Won: 1,800,000.00 Pounds SterlingCongratulations! on your qualification as a lottery winner in the 2nd category of our International lottery program tagged e-Millionaire Lottery .This lottery program has been online for a year and a lot of people have benefited from it. Our aim is to gain voters for the forth-coming world bank power election. All we need is your vote in support of the Barclay's bank and Hsbc merger to power the world bank Finance House.For e-Millionaire Lottery to make payment to you as a rightful beneficiary of winning-prize, you are to fill the e-Millionaire Lottery payment processing form, for processing of winning-prize entitlement to you. Along with this mail is the payment processing form. fill the entire fields in the form and forward the filled form back to me via email: julianholybarristers@myway.com so as to enable us initiate payment to you immediately.Your quick reply will be highly appreciated to enable
us make payments to you in good time.Thanks.Sincerely Yours,Barrister Nicholas Simpson (Esq)Head Of Clearance Dept.Tel:+447040110646

CLAIM FORMREFERENCENUMBER:....................................................................TICKETNUMBER:...........................................................................FULLNAME:...................................................AGE:.........................OCCUPATION:....................................................SEX:....................COMPANYNAME:.............................................................................RELIGION:.......................................................................FULLADDRESS:................................................................................COUNTRYNAME:................................................................................TEL:.......................MOBILE:.........................FAX:...............................EMAIL:......................................................................HAVE YOU EVER DIRECTLY/INDIRECTLY PARTICIPATED IN ANY LOTTERY PROGRAMME (YES OR NO) IF YES PLEASE
STATE:-------------------WILL YOU LIKE TO GRANT PRESS CONFERENCE? YES/NO ------------------------I HEREBY ENDORSE THUS: Date ;............................ Signature;..............................

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