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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • infoclaimsagent121@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "UK-GAMING Headquarters" <info@posadalagaviota.com>
Reply-To: bondryan13@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:57:32 +0000
Subject: (NOTICE!!!) FROM UK-GAMING Headquarters




UK-GAMING Headquarters:
United Kingdom
Customer Service
Ref: 851125
Batch #: 09-18-21-24-37-48

To the receiver of this mail,

This is to notify you that your email address was officially
emerged and won the sum of GBP £650,000.00 ( Six Hundred And
Fifty Thousand Pounds in the Online Uk Gaming Board Programme.

The winning numbers, Batch number: (09-18-21-24-37-48) Serial
Number: 851125 and a bonus ball of (23).

All online participants was selected from a data base on internet
users from which your email address came out as the winning coupon.

In view of this, Your £650 000(Six Hundred & Fifty Thousand British
pounds sterling) will be released to you by any of our payment offices
in Europe.

For more information on how to redeem your prize, You are to reply
with the information below as soon as you receive this notification.

CONTACT NAME: RYAN BOND
EMAIL: infoclaimsagent121@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:0 44 704 521 4521

INFORMATION FOR CLAIMS
1. Full Names:
2. Address:
3. Age:
4. Sex:
5. Marital Status:
6. Occupation:
7. Phone numbers:
8. Country:

Please note the following:

1All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
2Your Reference number must be in all your mails with the claims
officer.
3Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
4Please do not reply to this email. Contact your claims agent.

Your's Truly
Graham Louis
CO-ORDINATOR(ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME)
Note:Due to the high increase in spam if you receive another
notification other than this please ignore the previous notification for security purpose.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam