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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:
  • "british lottery international" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447031921128 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447011138526 (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.
  • b_lotteryagent20007@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mariamjackson6@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:48:38 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ATTENTION?=

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
WINNING INFORMATIONS:
Ref. No: KPC/9080118308/02/TCA
Batch No: 12/25/0034
Ticket Number: ZZ 3502 /8707-01

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily inform you of the result of the First annual draw of the British
Lottery International Programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted
from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and
corporate bodiespicked by an advanced automated random computer search from
the internet. No tickets were sold.Your e-mail address attached to Ticket
Number: 78945327856619 with Serial number 445/02 drew the WinningNumbers:09,11,18,30,37,38(bonus
No.12), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e.Match
3 plus bonus. 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.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as awinner
in the category 'A' with the following numbers attached Ref. No: KPC/9080118308/02/TCA
Batch No: 12/25/0034 : and Ticket Number: ZZ 3502 /8707-01 You are therefore
to receive a cash prize of GBP 2,500,000.00. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand
pounds) from the total payout

To file for your claim, Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.
*************************************
Mr. Alfred Atkins
Email:b_lotteryagent20007@yahoo.com
Moble:Tel: +44 701113 8526
Phone:Tel: +447031921128
*************************************
In line with our claims validation and verification, do endeavour to email
us with your full contact
informations for immediate processing, verification and legalization of
your claims in order for payment to be made to you as required,in accordance
with our payout policy.

The information are as follow:

1,Your Legitimate Name......................................
2,Your Full Contact address...................................
3,Your Tel and fax Number....................................
4, Occupation....................................................
5, Age..............................................................
6,Marital status.................................................
..

We Anticipate Immediate Respond from you.

Congratulation Once again from all member and staff of
the British Lottery Promotion

Sincerely yours,
Mrs Mariam Jackson
Lottery Coordinator

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam