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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:
  • ",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 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.
  • agentkelvin.adams1@yahoo.co.th (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AN CRANNCHUR OFFICE <an1_crannchur1_ie@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:33:01 +0300
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FROM AN CRANNCHUR NAISIUNTA LOTTERY.




AN CRANNCHUR NAISIUNTATHE NATIONAL LOTTERYwww.lotto.ie Ref: SAT/DEC05/07.Batch:05/10/wa34 AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION Following official publication, results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by the AN CRANNCHUR lottery program held on the December 05 , 2007,in Bangkok Thailand ,wherein your electrononic email address emerged as one of the online winning emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of 6,553,394.00 EUR = 291,985,165.56 THB with these particulars attched: (i) Award Numbers: TL 5-22-24-29-34-38-39 (ii)Serial No:STNL 87002/NL (iii)Batch No:HL54673XZ (iv)Lottery Code: STZX 007HL. All participants were selected randomly from World wide Website through computer ballot system extracted from over 1,000,000 companies and individuals, This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confide!
ntial till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. To file your claims, please contact our agent: Mr.Kelvin Adams,Claims Agent Asia DistrictBangkok Thailand.www.lotto.ie EMAIL; agentkelvin.adams1@yahoo.co.th
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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam