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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims 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 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.
  • drmike_denison100@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "YAHOO LOTTTERY" <drmike_denison100@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:52:06 -1200
Subject: Yahoo! Lottery Results You won =?iso-8859-1?B?ozgwMCwwMDAuMDAhIA==?=




Yahoo! Lottery Results You won £800,000.00! Yahoo! Mail
congratulates you!


Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in
the ongoing
Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 5TH OF sept. , 2007.

All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a
batch of
50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia
, United
States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as
part of our
international promotions program which is conducted
annually,consequently,you have been approved for a total pay
out of
800,000.00 GBP (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS
STERLING
).

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of
some multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to
the citizens in the communities where they have operational
base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our
British
representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in
your play
coupon and your prize of 800,000.00 GBP will be released to
you from
this regional branch office in UK.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.......................
Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other
intellectual
property infringement can be reached as follows:You are
advised to
contact Dr. Mike Denison your claims agent.

Name Dr.Mike Denison.
CLAIMS AGENT Email: drmike_denison100@yahoo.fr

You are to send the completed verification form below to our
Agent in
the United Kingdom whose email address is given above so
that you will
be advised on what to do to get your prize money.
Congratulations once
more!!

1. FULL NAME
2. SEX:
3. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
4. PRESENT ADRESS.
5. DATE OF BIRTH
6. OCCUPATION
7. TELEPHONE NUMBER
8. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)
9. MARITAL STATUS
10. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this
informationconfidential from the public until your claim is
processed
and yourprize released to you. This is part of our security
protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of
this
programme by
non-selected winner or unofficial personnel.
Yours Sincerely,

DR. BRIAN HUNT (PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

The Yahoo.com staff

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam