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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:
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• 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.
  • +447045722871 (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.
  • fastdeliverybyibcourier@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sir Ray Blade <rayblade_claims01@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:04:22 +0000
Subject: ACCREDITED FOR PAYMENT CONTACT INTERNATIONAL BONDED COURIERS FOR
PARCEL DELIVERY









Attention Dear Winner, Top of the day and Its Good Hearing from You Once More. I want to thank you for the urgent response concerning your lottery winnings as this shows how diligent you are in ensuring that things work out especially helping us with the Information needed to get your winning funds released to you. I want you to count yourself Lucky as a Winner of this Irish National Lottery as been sponsored by the Irish Gaming Board here in the United Kingdom.
The Online raffle draw which made you the winner of this lottery is the annual draw that is been conducted Once in a year in the Irish National lottery Office.This is to Enhance E-commerce and Trading as all lottery Company was advised to start Online draw by taking Internet into another exciting dimension of Life. It is in view of this that the Irish National Lottery, (A renowned Lottery Company In the United Kingdom) decided to start what is known to be the Online Lottery draw making them a stakeholder in this development that is highly related and Useful to Mankind.Note that your email address has won you the total sum of one million three hundred and fifty thousand Euros (1,350.000)
Thousands of Email addresses all over the world where selected from various email account and five were selected at random, This was how your email address was selected, therefore making you to have won in the first Category of this draw. Please be informed that you won alongside four other people and we got Information from Our Affiliated Courier company that they delivered the Winning Cheque of one of the winners to him yesterday, We have his email address and contact address for verification and confirmation, We have preferred not to disclose there identity to the Member Of the Public until it is demanded Officially, this is to protect and Uphold the Privacy, Terms and Condition as adopted by this Company.
As a matter Of urgency, I wish to inform you that you have been cleared for payment by the Claims department of this office. Hence, Your winning cheque alongside with other winning documents which include the Claim certificate,Insurance certificate and the Money Laundering certificate have been made available and will be handed over to you by our affiliated Courier Company as soon as you are ready to get this from them.
The Irish National Lottery is a Scheme that is been operated under the law as we have been Licensed to do this by the British Government, Our Activities are in accordance with section 4, subsection 4(ii) of the Gambling act of the 1999 constitution as it is applicable in the United Kingdom and Ireland.However,you are advised to contact Our Affiliated Courier Company and Negotiate an arrangement for delivery with them as we have already handed over your winning Cheque and other documents to them for delivery. The Contact Information is as below:


INTERNATIONAL BONDED COURIERS
Senior dispatch officer; Mrs Nina Cindy Brown
Email: fastdeliverybyibcourier@yahoo.co.uk
TEL:+44207060505901,+447045722871



Have it in mind that you are responsible for the cost of delivery of your winnings because of the Hardcover Insurance policy covering your winnings from the Lottery Board. This makes it impossible for anybody except you to make any deduction from your winnings.

Please, always be free to get back to me via email as our office is also open from Monday to Saturday to attend to Our Winners and their well wishers.
As Our Winner for this year, On behalf Of the Chairman Of the Irish Gaming Board, Sir Ezekiel Smith and all the Board Of Directors of this Scheme, Congratulate you as a lucky success to be celebrated.

Ray Blade

Fiduciary Agent
Claims Dept, IRNL.


Note that this letter serves as a request letter and only a copy of this request letter should be sent to our affiliated courier company requesting that you want to arrange the delivery of your parcel.


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