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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims 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.
  • +447024080465 (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.
  • francisducan01@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: uk_pridecasino@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:34:26 +0100
Subject: UK PRIDE WINNER LAST NOTIFICATION

British Pride Casino
British Casino Association
38, Grosvenor Gardens
London SW1W 0EB.
United Kingdom.
http://www.ukcasino.com.

CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Attn: Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#977) of the British Pride Casino program, Wheel E-game held on 9th of November 2006 which is yet to be claimed by you and this will be our final notification regarding to your won prize.

Congratulations once more on your email coupon which was selected among the 15 lucky prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.BCA-545411 and was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 50,000 different email addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

Reference Number: BPC 771537/999-6013/YIN
Coupon Number: BCA-545411
Prize Amount: £1.8 Million (One Million, Eight Hundred Thousand British
Pounds Sterling).

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning information provided above before 14 working days.

Claims Processing Officer: Mr. Francis Ducan
Email: francisducan01@yahoo.com
Tel: +447024080465

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with your agent.Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming British Casino Association E-GAMES.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Dorothy Jean Allen.
(Lottery Coordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

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