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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.
• 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.
  • free_lottery@list.ru (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK FREE LOTTERY ORGANIZATION" <andovale@paraisonet.com.br>
Reply-To: free_lottery@list.ru
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 8:40:39 -0300
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! (YOU HAVE WON)




ONLINE NOTIFICATION UNIT.
BRITISH LOTTERY6/49.
27/08/2008

We announce to you the draw of our free webstake lotto your email
address was picked as one of our online winners in the second
category.

To file for your prize claim do remember to quote the following vital
numbers:

WINNING DETAILS:

REFERENCE NUMBER: UKL/478593G9/19
BATCH NUMBER: 01/209/AD16G
OUR REF: 12190/14
TICKET NUMBER: 112-4540-525-106
Amount won:?750,000GBP.

Contact the underlisted assigned agent for your payment:

Mr West
free_lottery@list.ru

Yours truly,
Sir Peter Josh
Group Co-ordinator

Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Ref: UK/9420X2/05

Your ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/05 drew
the lucky number: 29 Congratulations, you have just won yourself
?750,000 in the lottery conducted by UK FREE LOTTERY ORGANIZATION.Your
email address wasamongst those chosen for this new year promo(no
ticket was sold) and you are to contact our Financial Controller for
Clearance



This Information are requird from you.

1. Full Names
2. Address
3. Age
4. Sex
5. Marital Status
6. Occupation
7.Phone number
8. Fax number
9. Country

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