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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "irish lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (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.
  • +447035921184 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 06:01:51 -0600
Subject: Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY

The Irish Lottery
P O Box 1010
11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X1/64
Batch: 077/07/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

You have been Selected on the Irish Lottery Draw Held on ,Sat 20 Oct 2008 - 9:39pm, Our lottery program selection has finally been performed today which was held at the Marina office. IRISH Promotion is a joint Euro/America private lottery registered and organized in accordance with the World Lottery Regulation act. We the National Lottery organizing committee are pleased to officially notify you of the status of your email application.

An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your email promotion ticket randomly drew for the Lucky Numbers: 20 Oct 2008 -,08, 12, 20, 22, 32, 44, Bonus 02 , which selected your email as the 1ST winner of our lottery program you have consequently won the lottery program in the first batch.Suffice to say here, We have officially approved a sum payout of EUR 2,795,635 Euro. to you as the lottery winner.

You are hereby required to contact your FIDUCIARY AGENT with below details for your winning funds.
Sir Mark Classan

Email: claim_fidiciarymarkclassan23@live.com
Phone Number:+4470359 21184

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
FULL NAMES: AGE: SEX: ADDRESS: COUNTRY: MARITAL STATUS: OCCUPATION: PHONE NUMBER: FAX NUMBER:

Congratulations from all our staff for being part of IRISH 2008
LOTTERY PROGRAM.
Yours faithfully,
Meg Stone (Mrs.)
Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY

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