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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!
• 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.
  • +34652541356 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • infotrustclaim@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: infoprize award <infoprize@prize1.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:26:18 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: PLZ BE INFORMED


PLZ BE INFORMED
LOTERIA Euro,
Gregorio Herrraez 15
Postcode 28033
Barcelona, Spain
REF NO; ILPB68458557
Ticket No; 290052202CH.
Result winning numbers:6-13-18-24-33-39
Serial Number:- 4-2-6-77
Batch Number:- 63-672-111
In view of the yearly sweepstake of the above named
organization held
on the 1st of Sep 2006. It is my pleasure to inform
you that your e-mail address attached to the above ballot No came up in the
third stake.
This invariably means that you have emerged as the
prize recipient in
the third category with an allocated sum of870.812,79 euro (Eight hundred and seventy thousand,
eight hundred and twelve euro,seventy-nine cent)only in the open ballot device.
Be informed that all participants were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from over
50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email
addresses from all over the world, as part of our
international promotions program, which we conduct
once every year.
For immediate release of your cash prize, kindly
contact your Fiducial Agent below:
TRUST CLAIM AGENCY S.L
TEL:+34-652-541-356
TEL/FAX:+34-940-468-530
EMAIL: infotrustclaim@aim.com
C/Santander, 1 28008 Madrid-spain
Congratulations once again.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Eva .C. Vicente
Promotion Director

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam