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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.
• 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 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.
  • claimagents_01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jarrettd@mchsi.com (COCA-COLA ONLINE PROMO 2007)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:19:00 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!Your Email Has Won X1000,000.00 In The CocaCola 2007 Promotion(Contact fiduciary agent immediately)

THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON. SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION.


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded,
final draws held on (1st march, 2007) by Coca-Cola in conjunction
withthe British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email was
amongthe20 Lucky winners who won £1000,000.00{One Million Great Britain
Pounds}each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.it was released
today 10th march, 2007 and your email was attached to ticket number
(7PWYZ2007)
and ballot number (BT:12052007/21)

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses
from an exclusive list of29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate bodiespicked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet.by the board of director.

Mr William Carpenter
22 Garden Close, Stamford, Lincs,PE9 2YP,
London United Kingdom
EMAIL: claimagents_01@yahoo.co.uk
Accept our hearty congratulations once again!

Yours Faithfully,
Management.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam