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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary 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 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.
  • +447031949469 (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.
  • agent_smith_mail@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SIR BOBBY BRUCE" <agent_smith_mail@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:20:49 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE GAME 2006
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England
Batch: 14/211/0374
Ref: BTL/311OXI/02 25/09/2006
(Customer Services)
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the British lottery programs
programs held on the 28th of April 2006 in London, Your e-mail address
attached, to ticket number: 694 75600545 721 with Serial number: 886/04
drew the lucky numbers:01-6-2-13-35-17, which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a
total sum of GBP 500,000.00( Five hundred thousand, pounds sterlings)
in cash credited to file RPC/9080115322/44. This is from a total cash
prize of GBP 125 million pounds sterlings.
This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for British
Lottery,
The estimated 125 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K.
history.The biggest was the 363 million pounds sterlings jackpot that
went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big Game, Mega
Millions' predecessor. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within
our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in
our
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site
through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
companies.
please contact our fiduciary agent with the below.
AGENT: Mr. Tommy Smith
Email: agent_smith_mail@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447031949469

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam