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

Fraud email example:

From: luckyday_lotto23@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:52:56 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Goodday=2E?=

LUCKYDAY LOTTO
1102 VAN DER TRAAT
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.

Dear Winner,
We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
Free Lotto draw held on the 31st of July 2006.All 10 winning
Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international Emails. Your email address
emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 Winners in this year's Annual
Free Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay
out of 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros) only. The following particulars

Are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL23112
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/5237900/NL

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email
as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
Mrs. Kelly Dorathy
Email- mrsdorathy@myway.com

N.B:
Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
claims officer.

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are
claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements.
Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
James Kone
Promotions Manager
The Luckyday Lotto Company
The Luckyday Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers,Mackintosh and a
Conglomeration of other international IT companies.
The Luckyday lotto Internet Draw is held once in a year and is so
organized to encourage the use of The Internet and computers worldwide.

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam