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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:
  • "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • ",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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +8613697479440 (China, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • johnttcbc@yahoo.co.uk
  • ttcbc@accountant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rose" <lottomailjackpot@yahoo.com.hk> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:02:35 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU AMONG THE LUCKY WINNERS OF $1MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR FOR 2007 EMAIL LOTTERY

ASIA EMAIL PROMOTION LOTTERY
ROOM,153.LIHUA BULDING
HUNAN,PROVINCIAL
CHINA
WINNING NOTIFICATION/PROCESSING ADVISE
WE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU OF THE RESULT OF THE ASIA EMAIL LOTTERY WINNERS PROMOTION HELD 27TH OFOCTOBER,2007.
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS ATTACHED TO A TICKET NUMBER 2752246831 WITH SERIAL NUMBER 65266283 DRAW THE LUCKY NUMBER LOTTO RESULT,WHICH CONSIQUENTLY WON IN THE SECOND CATEGORY.
YOU ARE THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR A LUMP SUM PAYOUT OF $1,000,000{ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR} IN CASH CREDITED TO THE REFRENCE NUMBER AT 040SB0603.THIS IS FROM TOTAL CASH PRICE OF DOLLARS SHARE AMONGST THE FIRST THREE{3} LUCKY WINNERS IN THIS CATEGORY.
DUE TO THE MIX UP OF SOME NUMBERS AND EMAIL ADDRESS,WE ADVICE THAT YOU KEEP THIS AWARD FROM PUBLIC NOTICE UNTILL YOUR CLAIMS HAS BEEN PROCESSED AND YOUR MONEY REMMITED TO YOU.
THIS IS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM OR UNWARRANTED TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS PROGRAM BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC.ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED THROUGH A SCIENTIFIC COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM AN ONLINE WEB WIDE CORRELATION OF EMAIL ADDRESS,NAMES ALL OVER THE WORLD AS PART OF OUR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAM WHICH WE CONDUCT TWICE EVERY YEAR.
WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH SWIFT CARD PAYMENT , AN UNLIMITED PLATNIUM ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.
BUT THE MAXIMUM TO WITHDRAW IS TWENTHY THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS PER DAY($20,500).KINDLY CONTACT THE BELOW PAYEE BANK IN POSSITION TO RELEASE YOUR ATM PAYMENT CARD WITH YOUR FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS:

1. MOBILE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER,
2.YOUR ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD
3. AGE
4 OCCUPATION
5.SEX
6.COUNTRY
7NATIONALTY
8 SERIAL NUMBER
9 WINNER NUMBER


CONTACT PAYEE BANK
MR JOHN
TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER &ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK
GUANGZHOU,GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL
CHINA
TEL: +86-136-97479440
EMAIL:johnttcbc@yahoo.co.uk
ttcbc@accountant.com <mailto:ttcbc@accountant.com>

THE ATM CARD PAYMENT DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT YOUR PAYMENT FOR THE EMAIL LOTTERY WINNER AWARD PRICE AND YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER COMMINUCATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S)OROFFICE(s) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT.
NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE
OF CONDUCT,WHICH IS (ATM-0411)
SIR,IMMEDIATE YOU SEND YOUR RECEIVING ADDRESS,YOUR UNLIMITED ATM CARD WORTH OF ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR WILL BE POSTED TO YOUR ADDRESS AND YOU CAN START CASHING YOUR MONEY

REGARDS,
MRS ROSE

Anti-fraud resources:

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