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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.

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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "here in united kingdom" (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.
  • +447031821519 (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.
  • frankkwaku1b@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo and others Lotto promotion <yahoo_others@easymail.hu>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:29:49 +0200
Subject: You won ฃ300,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you our lucky winner!!

You won ฃ300,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you our lucky winner!!

Messenger CONGRATULATIONS!!   YOU WON ฃ300,000.00! THE YAHOO/Msn/Aol/GOOGLE/ GLOBAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC Barley House Harold Road Sutton, Greater  London Sm1 4te United Kingdom.                    YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION   HELLO LUCKY WINNER!!   We happily announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc programs held on the first quarter of this year, 2007 in Tottenham London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of 300,000.00 GBP (THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ). lottery win promotion which is organized by Google & YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC. every quarter of the year.   Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our European Regional Representative Office in London as indicated in this notice. In view of this, you’re GBP ฃ300,000.00 would be released to you after contacting our legal/clearance office here in United Kingdom. Our fiduciary agent zoned for our paying bank (ICBS) will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. YAHOO, collects all the E-MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to yahoo mail, msn, hotmail, aol, rediffmail, altavista, and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only fifty-five people did emerge as winners since we only select  fifty-five people every quarter as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this month. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM You are to contact your Fiduciary Agent on or before your date of Claims, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Payment Center. Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 7 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize was won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be nullified and retrieved. To file for your claim send identification and details of claim to: LEGAL CONSULTANT/FIDUCIARY AGENT: Mr. FRANK KWAKU Email: frankkwaku1b@yahoo.com Tel: +44 703-182--1519 These numbers are your winning identification numbers, which you will send to your fiduciary agent. Serial number 5388/02 Draw lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357 Ticket number: 56475600545 188 Batch number.....................Lwh 09102 Lotto number.......................Lwh35447 Winning number...................Lwh09788 You are therefore advised to quote the following information to the Claims Agent as to facilitate the processing of your won amount and transfer of your fund without delay. More-so do well to fill the form below: NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING AND WINNING DETAILS CONFIDENTIAL TILL CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENCIAL DISQULIFIES YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE. Congratulations once more!! Yours Sincerely,  DR. JOHNSON BLAKE(PHD) LOTTERY ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR. The Yahoo.com staff Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com                 VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE FORM   1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________                                        2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________                   3.SEX:______________ 4.AGE:________               5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________                         6.OCCUPATION:________________________                     7.NATIONALITY:_____________________________ 8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________        9.BATCH NUMBER:____________________ _____________ 10.LOTTO NUMBER:                                                                             11.WINNING NUMBER:                                                                      12.DRAW LUCKY NUMBER:                                                               13.SERIAL NUMBER:                                                                           14.TICKET NUMBER:                                                                            15.AMOUNT WON:_________________________________ 16.DO YOU OWN A COMPUTER: 17.WHEN FIRST DID YOU USE A COMPUTER: 18. COUNTRY:________________________________   CONGRATULATIONS!!! FROM YAHOO ONLINE LOTTERY BOARD. DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE JOIN THE MOVE AGAINST SPAM EMAILS

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