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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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: "Lotto Coordinator" <winnotice452@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: claimdptagent@walla.com
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:29:23 -0600
Subject: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WON! CONTACT CLAIM AGENT FOR YOUR PRIZE CLAIM

SUPERENALOTTO

You have won,

With the introduction of new types of games, with the ushering in of on-line
technology and with the permits issued under EU law to EU countries to
compete for concessions to run games in Italy and on the internet, we are
launching our first international program.

We are running a program where instead of bought tickets and numbers in the
ballots we use email addresses. All contestants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from email addresses taken from all over the
world. You have received this message from Superenalotto prize dept. because
you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your
email address to receive mails from their sponsors.

>From the results of the draw that took place on the 12th of January 2007.
Your E-mail address has come up as one of the winners; you have therefore
won the sum of One Million United States Dollars (US $1,000,000, 00). This
is from a total cash prize of Ten Million United States Dollars
(USD$10,000,000.00) shared amongst Ten Lucky Winners in the Category A+.

This cash prize must be claimed not later than the 29th of January 2007.
After this date all unclaimed prizes will be declared void. Claimants must
be over 20 years of age. All entries must adhere to the Terms and conditions
stated in our official page.

To view the terms click on this link: http://onlinterms.4t.com/main.html or
paste it in your browser.

You must read the terms and conditions and understand them before
responding. After reading the terms and conditions, contact your processing
agent to file for your claim under reference number: 05/08-KLM/012/06.

Mr. Giulio Romano.
Email: claimdptagent@walla.com

You are to quote your winning reference number when responding.

Finally, we call on you to make sure that you save a copy of this mail
because you might be called upon to produce it at anytime.

Congratulations once more from all of us at Superenalotto and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.


Management.
Superenalotto.
Via Allesio di Tocqueville 13-20154 Milano, Italy

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