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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:
  • "million pounds" (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.
  • mr.tommysmith@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Alya Ahmed Khalifa Masoud Shaikhan Al Hannaee (H00019943) "
<h00019943@hct.ac.ae>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:21:48 +0400
Subject: Claims


BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY 2008 EDITION
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England
(Customer Services)

Batch: 14/211/0374
Ref: BTL/311OXI/02
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the British lottery programs
programs held on the 15th of January 2008 in London, Your e-mail
address attached, to ticket number: 694 75600545 721 with Serial
number: 886/04 drew the lucky numbers:01-6-2-13-35-17, which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been
approved to claim a total sum of GBP 500,000.00( Five hundred
thousand, pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file RPC/9080115322/44.
This is from a total cash prize of GBP 125 million pounds sterlings.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for British
Lottery, The estimated 125 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest
in U.K. history.The biggest was the 363 million pounds sterlings
jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big
Game, Mega Millions' predecessor. Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within our European booklet representative office in
Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your GBP
500,000.00 ( Five hundred thousand,pounds sterlings) would be released to you
by our affiliate bank in UK.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him.
AGENT: Mr.Tommy Smith
Email: mr.tommysmith@hotmail.com

1. FULL NAMES: 2. DATE OF BIRTH 3. SEX: 4. MARITAL STATUS:
5.CONTACT ADDRESS: 6.TELEPHONE NUMBER: 7.OCCUPATION: 8.BRIEF
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:
9.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS: 11.COUNTRY:

Sincerely,
Mr Simmon Russells.
Zonal Coordinator

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam