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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.
• 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.
  • +447024030985 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +2348038141717 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • pm-lotto@rambler.ru (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Cara Kidd" <hogp@blowfishsushi.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 25:09:12 +0900
Subject: Very urgent 224

The Lotto-Max Organization,
Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton,
Nottingham shire NG4 1SQ Essex ,
United Kingdom .
http://www.lotto-max.com

WINNING NOTICE



This is to notify you that your e-mail address tagged with a ticket
number: B9564 7560 4545 100 with serial number 046560 drew the winning
numbers5-7-14-42-30-21 and a bonus # 12 in our weekly National Lotto
6/49 lottery draws held on Saturday, 8th day of September 2007, in Essex
United Kingdom.. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide
Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over
10,000,00 companies and personal e-mail addresses.

You have been approved to claim a total sum of Four Hundred and Twenty
Thousand United States Dollars (US$420,000) in cash credited to file
EAAL/9080118308/04. Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall
within our European booklet representative office in United Kingdom as
indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your US$420,000 would be
released to you by an accredited commercial Bank in Europe.

To file for your claim, contact our Payment Office in Europe immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your prize to you.
Contact information is as follow: -

Name: Frank Tiks
Email: pm-lotto@rambler.ru
Tel: +234-803-814-1717

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program
to all that have successfully won this competition and thank you for
being part of our promotional lottery program.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Adam Falik
+44 702 403 0985
Customer Service: 680 NCA 85914

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam