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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 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")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",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 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.
  • claim.irishagent3@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: claim.irishagent2@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:12:40 -0000
Subject: HURRY!!! YOUR EMAIL HAS WON!!! CONGRATULATION!!!







INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT

REF NO: MMIL/7762367424/08

BATCH NO: 2178/108/MMD



ATTN: Winner,

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE.



We are pleased to inform today being the 21st of November 2008 the release

of the result of the EURO MEGA MILLION NATIONAL IRISH LOTTERY held on 11th

of August 2008. Your email address was attached to ticket number

42-23-0-113-69-½ with serial number 7773-05 and drew the lucky numbers

736-22575993-86 and consequently won in category (A).



You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of 815,960 (EIGHT

HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EUROS) in cash

credited to file REF NO: MMIL/3762367224/08. This from total cash prize of

14,464,450:00 (FOURTEEN MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND,

FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY EUROS) shared among the seventeen international

winner in this Category. All participants were selected through our

computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database drawn from

only Microsoft users from over 200,000.00 companies and 3,000,000

individual email addresses and names from all over the world.



No tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different

ticket numbers for representation and privacy. This is to encourage users

to Continues the use of E-mail and non-users to try and use emails. Your

winning fund has been insured with your Reference No: MSW-L/327015002/08

and will be ready for delivery. ATTN; call the foreign operations manager

for the processing of your prize money. To file for your claim, please

contact our fiduciary agent:





***************************************

NAME: BOBBY SEAN.

Email: claim.irishagent3@gmail.com

Tel: 00 353 857 587 710

Fax: 00 353 1 258 6008



Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate information in the space provided

below for record purposes to facilitate our immediate commencement of your

claims process and remittance of your prize money to a designated account

of your choice.



The completed form should be sent to your claims agent for immediate

commencement of prize remittance.



*Name :

*Address:

*City/State:

*Nationality:

*Sex:

*Age:

*Country:

*Email Address:

*Tel:

*Occupation:

*Date of Notification:

*AMOUNT WON:

*Lucky No:

*Batch No:



Remember all prize money must be claimed not later than Three weeks

(3wks). After this date all funds will be returned to the Department of

the Taoiseach as unclaimed



Note. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please

remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every of your

correspondence with your agent or us. Furthermore, should there be any

change of your email address, do inform your claims agent as soon as

possible.



Congratulations again from all members of our staff and thank you for

being a

part of our promotion program.



Thanks

SARAH RYAN

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