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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: "james zuma" <jameszuma222@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:22:03 +0200
Subject: PAYMENT PROCEDURE

Dear Amarjit Singh

We are in receipt of your mail and we wish to inform you that all
arrangments have been finally concluded to effect the transfer of your
winnings to your account details once we finish the verification exercise.Do
note that we recently took delivery of the total winnings from our sponsors.


The funds have been fully insured by this organisation and deposited with
our paying bankers FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (FNB),from where the
funds will be transfered.

You are advised as a matter of urgency to provide us with the following
informations so that we will proccess your clerance and issue same to our
paying bankers for them to make the neccessary transfer to your account
details.


1: YOUR FULL RESIDENTIAL OR OFFICE ADDRESS

2; YOUR CONTACT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS

3: YOUR FULL NAME

4:YOUR OCCUPATION,PROFESSION OR BUSINESS.

Once we get this details, we will proccess your winnings and advise the bank
to effect remittance

Congratulations,

JAMES ZUMA

Claim Agent

27-83-684-3844

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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam