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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:
  • "claims office" (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)
  • "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.
  • +447024033314 (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.
  • martinseventpromomanager2007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: E-LOT PROMO ANNOUNCEMENT <e-lotannouncer_julia@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <martinseventpromomanager2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:46:12 -0400
Subject: E-LOT PROMO ANNOUCEMENT (You Are One Of Our Xmas Promo Winner)




E-LOTTERY COMPANY UK OFFICE,
7 West End Avenue, Gatley, Cheadle,Cheshire, SK8 4DR, UK.Draw Date: 27-10-2007WINNING NOTIFICATION:Dear Winner,We happily announce to you the Draw (07/1099) of the E-Lottery online email promotion program held on 27th october 2007. All 10 winning e-mail addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 500,000,000 international emails from around the globe.Your emails address emerged alongside 9 others as a category two winner in this Year's Annual E-Lottery Draw *CONGRATULATIONS*. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a totalpay out of £900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand Greate British Pounds Only).The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:(i)Winning Numbers: 05–18–26—34–42–49–BB 08 (ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76 (was attached to your email)(iii) Lottery Code Number: FL09622UK (iv) Reffrence Number: EL/07/736207147/UKPlease contact the claims officer incharge with the contact information below as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:NAME: Martins Jones
TEL: +44-702 403 3314
EMAIL: martinseventpromomanager2007@yahoo.co.uk Congratulations once more.
Regards,Mrs Julia SimsonE-LOTTERY ANNOUNCER.
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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam