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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • ",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.
  • raymond-donald@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mailer4@mchsi.com (raymond_donald@yahoo.com.hk)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:55:14 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID

NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID


This is to notify you that you have been chosen
By the Board of trustees of the above International
charity organization branched in lONDON,UK as
one of the final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation
for your own personal, education and business development.

Association Of European Charity Foundations in conjunction
with the European Union ,is giving out a yearly donation
of One Hundred Million United States Dollars as specific
Donations/Grants to 50 lucky international recipients
worldwide in different categories

30% to be used by you to develop a part of your enviroment,
as this is a yearly program, which is a measure of universal
development strategy, and eradication of poverty.

Please kindly note that you are not the only
beneficiary in your country this year,and your
country is not the only country that is benefiting
from this donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen
from countries from all continents.

The idea of this donation is that within ten years
from now, there will be notable richness amongst many
unusual people around the world.This will give many
people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage
where they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will
only be chosen to receive the donation once. which means
that, subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again,
so its your choice to spend the donation wisely on something
that will last you a long time. And please do not bother
following up this email, if you have benefited from this
donation in previous years.

worldwide, you were selected among the lucky
recipients to receive the award sum of
US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United

States Dollars) as charity donations/aid
from the Association Of European Charity
Foundations and the UNO in accordance.

You are required to expeditiously
Contact the Executive Secretary
With the following details,

1:Full Names:2:Address:3)Phone number:4)
Nationality5)Sex:6)Age:7)Occupation:

***********************************
Executive Secretary,
Mr.Raymond Donald

Email:(raymond-donald@excite.com)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam