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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "overseas subscribers agents" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
  • "20 craven park, harlesden" (address often used in lottery scams)
• 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.
  • +447045713193 (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.
  • mrs.anna_john@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "bill jon" <billjj4@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:19:13 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS EMERGE AS A WINNER IN THIS LOTTERY PROMOTION

 Microsoft Award Team
OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENTS
Mid YEAR PROMOTION 2007
20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer's Service Center)
Promoter: Microsoft ®
Draw 1029 19/4/2007

ATTENTION

RESULT CONFIRMATION MLTT/MTU/2007ETN FOR REF. NUMBER MCS/231OXI/04

Congratulations! You are among the ten (10) randonly selected for the Easter draws held in London. Selection was made using special software to generate valid email addresses at random from over 40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world. All facilities and computer software were tested by Statisticians.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5224652456UT with serial number 5388/02, batch number 12L/2006/04, lottery ref number MCS/231OXI/04 and drew lucky numbers 06 - 13 - 17 - 23 -32 - 43 bonus ball 49 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

Apparently, 10 individual email addresses were selected to recieved from a total cash prize of 8.5 million pounds. You have therefore been approved for the total sum of GBP 850,000 (eight hundredand fifty thousand pounds) in cash credited to file MLTT/MTU/2007ETN.

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Please read and follow all enclosed instructions very carefully. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims 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 program by some unscrupulous elements. You are to contact your fiduciary agent for further instruction on the prize/payment schedule.This lottery promo was held for the pupose of rewarding valuable internet users,as a way of saying thank you.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

fiduciary  AGENT
Mrs ANNA JOHN
E-Mail: mrs.anna_john@yahoo.com

TEL: +447045713193

Remember, all winning in this second category must be claimed not later than 30th may, 2007. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members and staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note that you must contact your fidiciary agent within one week of receipt of this notice.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Sincerely,

MR. JON    bill 

Tel;  +447031861116 

Co-ordinator Online Promotions

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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