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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • +447045718520 (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.
  • claimsagentoffice102@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • claimsagent_well01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: wins01@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:30:55 +0000
Subject: You Have Won!!

NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT.
79 BOVILL ROAD
LONDON. SE23 1EL.
Ref: EGS/2251256003/02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The board of directors and entire member of staff of the National Lottery wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address Ballot) online Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter. Your email account have been picked as a winner of £600,000.00 GBP (Six Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling (4,200,000.00) shared amongst seven winners. This results is now released to you on 1st October, 2007 and your email address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 17-19-20-32-36-48 and bonus ball 18 in the Lotto,you where selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email address users.Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. For the release of your winning, kindly contact your claims supervisory officer at the British Lottery Head Quarters, Payment Release Order

Department,
Mr. Well Paulson,
Email : claimsagentoffice102@yahoo.co.uk
claimsagent_well01@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44-704-571-8520
Fax: +44-701-421-8453

You are to quote your lucky number for confirmation on our winning.

Full Name,Country/province,Marital status,Sex,Age,Occupation,Tell/Fax,Ref Number,Batch Number,Winning Number.

Congratulations from the entire member of staff and thank you for being part of our email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
MRS ANNA JEFFERSON.
Public Affairs Officer.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam