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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:
  • "i will advice you " (this email uses bad English)
• 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: RICHARD PATRICK PATRICK <agentpatrick_lotteryclaim@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:43:15 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re:PAYMENT PROCEESING FORM


Dear Winner,Georgia Faustlich

We acknowledge the receipt of your mail and will like to assured you once more that you are one of our lucky winners of the year as your e-mail address is exclusive list of 17,922 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of nine (9) winners in the sixth category for the third prize.

However, to start your claims kindly fill the form below:

Congratulation once more, to enable us process your payment immediately do fill in this form and return it back to this very office for us to start your payment verification process.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM

1.Name........................................................................

2.Address: ...................................................................

3.Marital Status: ...........................................................

4.Occupation: ...............................................................

5.Age: ..........................................................................

6.Sex: ..........................................................................

7.Nationality: ...............................................................

8.Country Of Residence: ..............................................

9.Mobile Number: ........................................................

10.Fax Number: ...........................................................


11.Reference number....................................................

12.Batch number ...........................................................


All these will enable us and the paying bank do the verification process .Call me as soon as you get this mail so that i will advice you on how to fill the form.

Congratulation from all the staff.
Mr. R.PATRICK






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