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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:

• 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.
  • +447024080951 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447030402517 (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.
  • microsoft.promo@k.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: 2007 On-line Promotion <info_promo00@o2.pl>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:28:31 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION(YAHOO)


 

ON-LINE LOTTERY.

 

 

YAHOO! GRAND EMAIL LOTTERY PROMOTION.
PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REF NO: YLP/4910X1/05

BATCH NO: 12/25/0305

 

WINNING NOTIFICATION

Attn: Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the release of the lottery promotion that was randomly selected through a computer ballot system draw from

MICROSOFT USERS,COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUAL EMAIL ADDRESSES FROM THE WORLD WIDE WEB(WWW).

 Yahoo as now the largest Internet website and in an effort to make sure that YAHOO remains the most widely used website and to encourage the use of  YAHOO all over the world, YAHOO are running an e-mail better test.

 

 theYAHOO! ON-LINE EMAIL LOTTERY PROMO/WORLD GAMING BOARD held on 20Th  January 2006.The results were released today . 
 Your email address attached to Ticket No: 7804468845 with Serial No: 0252393053 drew the lucky numbers 08-09-17-29-37-43 which subsequently won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved a lump sum of (1,000.000)ONE MILLION GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS. 

 

CONGRATULATIONS! Your funds are presently held in a Finance/Security Firm, and is insured in your FILE REFERENCE and covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY. For security reasons, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this Lottery program. To process your winning claims, please contact your Fiduciary/Claims Agent;

 

Mr. Georg Stiller
(Fiduciary Agent)
Email: microsoft.promo@k.ro
Tel: +447024080951  Fax: +44 703 040 2517

 

You are to send the following information’s below to the fiduciary agent;

 

1. Full Names:

     2. Current Address:

            3. Tel/Mobile/Fax Numbers:

 4. Nationality:

   5. Date of Birth:

           6. Winning Email Address:

             7. Next Of Kin and Address:

8. Occupation:

              9. Batch and Serial Numbers:

                 10. Ticket and Reference Numbers

11.
MARK PAYMENT PROCESS PREFERRED:
A). CERTIFIED CHEQUE.......................(B). BANK TRANSFER......................

N.B: Endeavor to quote your winning references in all future correspondence so as to avoid unnecessary delay and complications. For due processing and remittance of your winning prize to your designated bank account of your choice, please treat as urgent.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your Fiduciary/Claims Agent as soon as possible. All winning must be claimed not later than 29Th Febuary, 2007. After this date all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake.

 

Congratulations once again and thank you for being a part of the YAHOO! ON-LINE E-MAIL LOTTERY PROMO.

 

Yours Sincerely,
MRS SUSAN ANDERSON.
(Zonal Lottery Co-ordinator).

 

 

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