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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: amstrong steve <steveamstrong2@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:03:14 +0800 (CST)
Subject: CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM.



Dear Ms Lucina,

We recieved your mail with thanks, All participants for the online version 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. This promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your #600,000 (Six hundred thousand pounds sterlings)would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. For your benefit i advice you fill the CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM with valid information and send back to us to enable us process your claims as time is not on our side.


Best regards
Mr. Steve Amstrong
(Fiducial Agent)



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