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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:
  • "claim 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.
  • +31616757508 (Netherlands, 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.
  • interactive_finance@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: global@inter1.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:58:09 +0100 (CET)
Subject: YOUR WINING


GLOBAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
Laan Van Meerdervoort 155
2517 AX Den Haag
THE NETHERLANDS

Congratulations!

We are proud to inform you that you have won 500,000.00.Euros Your E-mail address is one of 200 lucky email addresses who have won in the second category of the weekly Global Lottery International Promotional program of the 2010worldcup to be held in South Africa.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world as part of our electronic business Promotional Program in The Netherlaands.
See below details on how to claim your prize. Details on the Winnings:
Your Winning Reference Number is: LLI/240142/011
Batch Number: 18/006/1094/LIPDA/SL
Lucky Numbers 80, 35, 11, 72, 90, 41 +1
Ticket Number 7017-4162-1018
Serial Number MH4710019
You are to contact your Claim Agent below for your prize; Please remembers to quote your reference number and Batch Number for easy processing of your prize.
You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your claims and certificate.
1. Full names:
2. Phone number:
3. Fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Sex:
6. Age:
7. Nationality:
8. Country of resident:
Remember, you have to contact your Claim Agent Dr. Maxwell Jackson, through email or you can call him immediately to facilitate your prize, you are to send your winning information as stated above through his email address and call him to let him know that you have contacted him through email.
Claim Agent: Dr.Maxwell Jackson
Tel: +31-616-757-508
Email: interactive_finance@yahoo.co.uk
On behalf of our GLOBAL Lottery International team, we say Congratulations once again.
From the Coordinator

Mrs. Elizabeth Fortune.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam