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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 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.
  • +447024060675 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "lottery award" <lalaward4@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: rev.fr.abbasjose@live.com
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:21:30 +0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS:YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON LOTTERY PRIZE THE SUM OF (250,000.00GBP)


Yahoo Lottery Board
P.O BOX 1010
Liverpool, London
United Kingdom

RE:WINNING NOTIFICATION

This is to inform you that your email address have won a prize money of TWO
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS (250,000.00GBP) in the Year 2008 Lottery
Prize
Gift of YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMOTION which is being organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY
INC.
for the introduction and Launching of our new YAHOO BETA MAIL .

Winners of this lottery promotion were randomly selected from different
email
addresses ranging from yahoomail.com, rediffmail.com, hotmail.com, aol
mail.com,
other email addresses and web mails so as to advertise for our new Yahoo
Beta
Mail; to encourage internet users to switch over to our new YAHOO BETA MAIL
.Winners
of this lottery were
drawn and randomly selected
from millions of
active Online Email users and were selected through a electronic ballot
system
drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses
users.

This results is now officially released to the public after the result was
certified by the management and staff of YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS and your
email address attached in the B Category with Batch number: YBM-EBS-390AF,
Ref
number: YBM-EBS-719AF,Winning number: YBM-EBS-798AF emerged a winners of TWO
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS (250,000.00GBP) in the New Year Lottery
Prize
Gift of YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMOTION.

You are required to contact our claims Agent Rev.Fr. Abbas Jose for
direction
on how to claim your prize money. You are to contact our Claims Office with
this
email contact for claims:
rev.fr.abbasjose@live.com

Phone:+44-702-406-0675


You must claim
your Lottery Prize not later than
14 days from date of Draw
Notification in which Prize has been won. Please note in order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference
number in all correspondence.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period 14 days) will be forfeited.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
Batch number......................YBM-EBS-390AF
Ref number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

These numbers above fall within the United Kingdom agent's Location file,
you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and
Personal Information to him for claims of your prize.

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the claims
agent
to facilitate the processing of the transfer of your fund with the appointed
paying bank.

Send your
Identification Numbers/Your Personal
Information to him so that he
will
proceed further for your prize claim immediately:

PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full name..................
2. Country....................
3. Contact Address......
4. Telephone Number....
5. Marital Status.........
6. Occupation..............
7. Age...........................
8. Sex............................

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!

KEEP YOUR WINNING INFORMATION PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE
YOUR
PRIZE MONEY.
NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH,
DEDUCT/CUT
OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON. THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED
STRICTLY!

Anti-fraud resources:

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