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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "claim 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)
  • "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 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.
  • infowin777@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "vueling 2008" <2008_vueling@klikni.cz>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 20:24:11 +0200
Subject: PRIME VUELING FOUNDATION PROGRAM.


PRIME VUELING FOUNDATION PROGRAM.
MADRID-SPAIN

Email Ticket Number:TL4461/06/74,

Following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic on-line
Sweepstakes organized
by Prime Vueling Foundation in line with our 4th anniversary in Airline
Service all over Europe,
the Slide circuit award prizes in conjunction with the foundation for the
promotion of software
products, (F.P.S.), held on the 21Th of May, 2008, in Spain, wherein your
electronic email
address emerged as one of the online winning email in the 1st category.

Hence your email address was attach to a ticket Number:TL4461/06/74, from
the average
collection of over 150.000.000 One Hundred and Fifty Million Email
addresses and your
email address came up as one of the winning email, which attracted to a cash
award of
1,000,000.00 Euros (One million Euros ) Jackpot in the Prime Vueling
Foundation,in which
several e-mail addresses were picked Randomly by the Lotto software
powered by th
Internet through the worldwide website.

Your email address was among those chosen this year for the Prime Vueling
Foundation
promotion.

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact
the processing
office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information
concerning the
verification processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.

It is important to note that your award information was released today the
22Th of May 2008
with the following particulars attached to it.

(I) Award numbers:TL 41/53542
(ii) Email ticket number 6677453
(iii) BATCH NUMBER: 45/0 93/91961/SA
(iv)The file REFERENCE NUMBER: TL/47830/96/06

To file and claim your winning Sum, Please contact the claim
agents: FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER

Mr.Simms Sanchez
Tel: *0034-693-455-183** *
Email: infowin777@aim.com
Madrid Spain.

Best Regards,

Dr. Connie Jose
(promotion Coordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam