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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:
  • ",500,000" (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.
  • +447045766594 (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.
  • guinness-10@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Guinness Company<guinness-10@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:51:42 +0900
Subject: Notification Of Results. Congratulations!!

Guinness Online Lottery.
Diageo Ireland
P.O. Box 1759,
Killorglin, Co. Kerry
Ireland
www.guinness.com

THE GUINNESS COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded draws
held by Guinness Company. Your E-mail was among the 5 Lucky winners
who won £2,500,000.00 GBP (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand, British
Pound Sterling's)each in the Guinness Company online Lottery. This
draw is being organized to enhance awareness and publicity of the
Guinness Extra-Stout product.

Your E-mail was attached to E-Code number: (GOL53258954-248) and
E-ticket number:EM8217DD. The online draws was conducted by a random
selection of E-mail addresses from an exclusive list of 62,447,639
E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No Tickets
were sold but all e-mail addresses were assigned to different E-ticket
numbers for representation and privacy.

To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to contact your
payment representative and provide her with the following informations
as stated below, so we can proceed with the verification, clearance and
remittance of your won funds to you.

1. Full Names:
2. Contact Address:
3. Phone number(s):
4. Age:
5. Country:
6. E-Code number:
7. E-ticket number:


Payment Representative
-----------------------------------------------------------
Name : Dr. Gordons Brown
Email:payrep@guinness.company.org.uk
guinness-10@hotmail.com
Tel : +447045766594
-----------------------------------------------------------

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours Truly,
Rev. Wilton Bour
General Manager (Notification Department)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam