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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:
  • "royal national lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • +447045712276 (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.
  • mr_scotthales@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Royal National Lottery
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:14:59 +0100
Subject: Ref.No.-RNL/051/652659966/UK

FROM:PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LOTTERY,WINNING NOTICE FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER -
Ref.No.-RNL/051/652659966/UK.

Attention:

The Royal National Lottery has just concluded its final draws of it's periodical promotional program.

An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated
randomcomputer search from the internet.

No tickets were sold.

Your email address emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes category as email addresses were soughted,from
atotal number of 25,000 addresses drawn from all over the globe.

After an automated computer ballot of our Royal National Lottery program,only SEVEN winners emerged in this category
andtherefore each are to receive payouts of EU1,500,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) from the total
ofEU10,500, 000.00 (TEN MILLION,FIVEHUNDRED THOUSAND EURO).

However,every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket number,after the cyber lottoselection,the
below ticket and reference numbers emereged as one of the lucky winners in the above category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- RNL/051/652659966/UK,
Ticket No.- RNL87866UK.

For confirmation of the claim of your prize money, you are to send an email to our customer service representative
withinformations below for further instructions on how you can claim your prize:

Mr Scott Hales
Customer Service Representative
Royal National Lottery UK,
email:mr_scotthales@hotmail.com
contact: +447045712276

You may be required to provide any of the above information during the processof collecting your prize.

We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in
thenearest future.

Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Sincerely,
Angela Brookes
Promotions Manager
Royal National Lottery

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