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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.
• 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.
  • unitednationsclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • drpeter_lopez@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Drdavies Anderson <drdaviesanderson62@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: unitednationsclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:51:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATION BENEFICIARY YOU ARE A WINNER.


UNITED NATION TRUST FUNDS
UNITED KINGDOM OFFICE
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIR.
158, MARTINS WILLY WAY,
234 ARENATOWERS 1102E LONDON OFFICE .

Congratulations Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Six Hundred
And Fifty Thousand Five hundred Great British Pound
Sterlings,(£650,500.00)for this year 2008 Lottery promotion which is
organized by United Nations Organization.

United Nations Organization, collects all the email addresses of the
people that are active online,among the millions that subscribed to
the Internet.we only select five people every Year as our winners
through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we
congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................UNO 09102XN
Reff number.......................UNO 35447XN
Winning number...................UNO 09788XN
These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to
contact the event manager/Claims Department, send your winning
identification numbers and fill the verification form below,to
enable him verify your claims.
1.FULL NAMES OF DONATION BENEFICIARY:
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
3.DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
4.WINNING EMAIL:
5.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS:
6.NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:
7.SEX:
8.OCCUPATION:
9.MARITAL STATUS:
10.NATIONALITY:
Our corresponding office in the (AU) African Union will give details
on how your funds would be remitted to you.Do contact our payment office
immediately with the informations below.

A Scanned copy of a valid identification card should also be attached(either an
International passport or Driver's License) and send with the listed
information for claims of your won prize.
******************************
Payment Officer:Mr.Peter lopez
Email:unitednationsclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk
personal email address:drpeter_lopez@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
Mr Ban Ki-moon.
(UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam