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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:
  • ",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.
  • eulott300@hotmail.co.uk
  • eulott@jmail.co.za
  • eulagent@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "eulott24 Gazeta.pl" <eulott24@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:48:07 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!


EU LOTTO PROMOTERS, HIGH STAKE INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/AWARD NOTIFICATION
REF NUMBER: SLI/432/964/01, BATCH NUMBER: ST-622-SN14-0

CONGRATULATIONS

We are pleased to inform you the draw of the high stake draw/promotions held
last week
in Zurich Switzerland the chosen venue for the draw. Your email address was
attached to
ticket number 43687400565-147, with serial number 8914/13 which drew the
lucky number
16-18-13-20-15-14-01 and consequently won you the lottery in 2ND category.
You have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,800,000,00 (One
Million Eight
Hundred U.S. Dollars) only in cash credited to file REF No: SLI/432/964/01.
This is
from total prize money of US$7,000,000,00 (Seven Million U.S. Dollars) only
shared among
the five international winners in this category.

Note that all participants in this lottery program have been selected
randomly through a
computer ballot system drawn from over 40,000 companies and 50,000,000
individual email
addresses from all search engines and websites. The promotional program
takes place every
year, please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet
representative officer in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view
of this, your
US$1,800,000,00 (One Million Eight Hundred U.S. Dollars) only will be
released to you by
our preferred payment centre which will be closer to you.

To this end, you are required to send us your full address, telephone and
fax number, we
shall use this to determine our closest agent to you that will arrange for
payment in your
favour.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your fund as
soon as we pass your information to them through our online payment
Computers. For security
reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till
your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you this, is part of our protocol or
precautionary
measure to avoid double claim and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
unscrupulous
people or participants. Please be warned.

To commence the process of filing for your claim, please contact our
Customer Relation Manager
- Mr. PETER MARTINS - EU Lottery, on either of these addresses:
eulott300@hotmail.co.uk,
eulott@jmail.co.za or eulagent@aol.co.uk . Mr. Martins will guide you after
you have sent
him your information; he will direct you to your matching paying agent.

All winning must be claimed within two weeks of this notification, to avoid
a return of funds
to the LOTTERY TREASURY as unclaimed. Please note, in order to avoid
unnecessary delay and
complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch number in
all correspondence.

Once again we say CONGRATULATIONS!
Sincerely Yours,
PAUL HARRISON
COORDINATOR

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam