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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 united states dollars" (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)
  • "million us dollars" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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 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.
  • +2348062672693 (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.
  • paymentdept102@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:26:37 -0500
Subject: YOU HAVE WON $1 MILLION US DOLLARS

YOU HAVE WON $1 MILLION US DOLLARS
Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was
released today being 17th November 2008, from the
Australian International Lottery program, which is
fully based on an electronic selection of winners
using their e-mail address from some sites. Your email
address was attached to ticket number;
4700172507056490102 and serial number 7741134002. This
batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42
and bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery
in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of
USD$1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
ONLY) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/09 from the
total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in
this category. All participants were selected through
a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred
thousand E-mail addresses.

Furthermore, your details (e-mail address) fall within
our European representative office in
Amsterdam,Holland as indicated in your play coupon and
your prize of USD$1,000,000.00 will be released to you
from this regional office in NIGERIA. We hope that
with part of your prize, you will participate in our
end of year high stakes for US$1.5 Billion
international draw. To file for your claim, please
contact our director of finance.

Name: DR MATHEW RALPH.
Email:paymentdept102@gmail.com
Tel:+2348062672693

PROVIDE THE BELLOW INFORMTIONS:
1]YOUR NAMES:

2]AGE:

3]NATIONALITY:

4]CONTACT NUMBER:

5]OCCUPATION:

6]SEX:

7]ANNUAL INCOME:

8]CONTACT ADDRESS:

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
program by non-participants or unofficial personnel.
Note: all winnings MUST be claimed before the 30th
November 2008; otherwise all funds will be returned
as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
organizations.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Rosemary Quiles.
Coordinator,

NOTE: Do not reply to me, rather you are to contact
DR MATHEW RALPH.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam