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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:
  • "headquater" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +447011127476 (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.
  • londontrustbank@accountant.com

Fraud email example:

From: Terry Waters <terrywatersonline@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:28:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Claims department.


Dear Winner,

congratulations from all the staff here in the U.K online lottery department, you have been granted clearification as a winner of the (2088) plus 5+ bonus category.

Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number: 8390281 with Serial number 3422/06 drew the lucky numbers:3-11-13-18-26-31, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. All participants for the online version of the national lottery,were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online

To proceed with your claims, you must immediately contact Mr Jim Applegate of our affiliatted transferring bank(London Trust Bank Plc). So that arrangements can be made for your prize money to be coveyed to you.This makes the claims process much easier, since a good majority of our overseas winners can't come in person to the lottery headquaters here in England,to collect their winning documents and get paid directly. Do endevour to contact him via email,with the following details:


(1).Your full name
(2).Your address, phone number and country.
(3.)Your order number,which is:(SU65725UK)

After you have sent the above information, you will be provided with options for the remittance of your prize money.


Contact details:

LONDON TRUST BANK PLC
96 Porters close ,Greys
Essex, London
RM20 4AS
TEL: +44-701-112-7476
Email: info@london-trustbank.com or londontrustbank@accountant.com


Congratulations once again,

Terry Waters(Mr).




























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