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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (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)
• 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.
  • +447031958611 (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.
  • uke_lottrey007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Mary Smith Mary Smith <uke_lottrey2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <uke_lottrey007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:50:50 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:




THE E-LOTTERY COMPANY.7 West End Avenue, Gatley,Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 4DR, UK.

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the Draw (06/1099) of the E-Lottery online email promotion program held on 27 october, 2007.
All 10 winning e-mail addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your emails address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winnern in this year's Annual E-Lottery Draw. Consequently, you have therefore beenapproved for a total pay out of £546,480.00 (Five Hundred And Forty-Six Thousand, Four Hundred & Eighty British Pounds Sterling 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 (iii) Lotto Code Number: FL09622UK (iv) Ref Number: L/07/736207147/UK Above all, you are required to fill out the Claims Verification form below and send it to the Fiduciary Agent
1.Name............................

2.Address........................
3.Age...............................

4.Sex...............................
5.Occupation....................

6.Country Of Resident.......
7.Nationality......................

8.Tel/Fax...........................
Please contact the Fiduciary Agent as soon aspossible for theimmediate release of your winnings:
FIDUCIARY AGENT: mr john markTEL: +447031958611EMAIL: uke_lottrey007@yahoo.co.uk
N.B: Winnings not acknowledged and claimedwithin one week ofnotification will be void
.Regards,Mary SmithPromotion Manager,
The E-Lottery Company.UK & Europe.
_________________________________________________________________
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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam