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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:
  • "claims director" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348063478451 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • mariovolts2008@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Pogemiller, Leroy" <PogemillerL@umkc.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:22:25 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!...YOU ARE ONE OF OUR LUCKY 2008 e-LOTTERY WINNERS




CONGRATULATIONS!!!...YOU ARE ONE OF OUR LUCKY 2008 e-LOTTERY WINNERS

Batch Number 008795727498 Serial Numbers BTD/9080648302/06 Ref No. 230LS/DOB09/83O7

We are Happy to inform you that your E-mail Account has won you £550,000.00 (Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds)from the prestigious MICROSOFT-MSW MEGA ticket free lottery e-LOTTERY program held in UK of which E-mail addresses were collected from over 24300 e-mail services providers and winners were chosen at random from our random computing system.

Please contact the claims director below for further details:

CONTACT EMAIL: mariovolts2008@aim.com CONTACT NAME: MR. Mario E. Volts CONTACT NUMBER: +234 806 347 8451

You are to quote Your personal data as specified below:

1.FULL NAMES:..... 2.ADDRESS:..... 3.SEX:..... 4.AGE:..... 5.MARITAL

STATUS:.....6.OCCUPATION:..... 7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:...... 8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:......9.COUNTRY.......

Warmest Regards

Logemiller Leroy

Reha Lingfil Advert/Publicity Agent

For Microsoft Corporation

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam