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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "rovex house, hay hall rd." (address often used in fake 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")
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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.
  • trans_globalcourier01@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: UNITED KINGDOM ONLINE DRAWS <online_programmelotterydraw@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:10:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: YOU HAVE BEEN CLEARED FOR PAYMENT{SEND EMAIL TO TGPS COURIER SERVICE FOR YOUR CLAIMS)


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)





Dear Winner,

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. your information have been forward to the courier company I want you to contact the courier company with the information below:

Mr. Williams .A. Weaver (dispatch officer)
Rovex House, Hay Hall Rd. Tyseley,
Birmingham. B11 2AG. England.
Email: trans_globalcourier01@yahoo.co.uk


You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their email address for their courier cost of delivery.When contacting them,you are to include your winning amount as your subject.

Note: you are Quote your complete names,Ref/Batch Numbers,winning amount and your direct phone number so that they can honour your letter.Once again i say congratulations and always inform me with your dealings with the courier company.and send your contact address to the courier company and your Date of birth,











VERIFICATIONS FORM

FULL NAMES...................................................

CONTACT ADDRESS........................................

TEL/FAX NUMBERS.........................................

AGE.................................................................

SEX..................................................................

OCCUPATION.................................................

NEXT OF KIN..................................................

COUNTRY........................................................

AMOUNT WON. £753,437.00

WINNING EMAIL.

REFERENCE NUMBER...................................

TICKET NUMBERS..........................................

SERIAL NUMBERS.........................

Thanks,
Mrs Janell Charlton
Fiduciary Agent,
NATIONAL LOTTERY



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