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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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 uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "claims office" (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.
- davidgaulden0@tlen.pl (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Euro Millions" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidgaulden0@tlen.pl>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:03:26 -0500
Subject: HELLO.

EURO-MILLIONS

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

WINNING NOTIFICATION/CONGRATULATIONiiiii

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 9th lucky winners in the Real lottery draw held on 31st of July. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 20,000,000 international emails. Your email address

emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 winners in this year's Annual Real lottery Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of (?1,000,000.00 euro) One Million Euros.

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

   Ref. Number: 132/756/4509

   Batch Number: 538901527-Bc68

   Ticket Number: 27522465896-6453

Please contact the under listed claims agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

   David Gaulden

   Claim agent,

   Euro-Millions

   UK National Lottery.

   Email: davidgaulden0@tlen.pl

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Maria Contez (co-coordinator)

EURO-MILLIONS

UK NATIONAL LOTTORY.

Europe.

N.B:

1.All claims are nullified after 15 working days from today.

2. Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.

3. Do inform the claims agent of any change of names or addresses.

4. All winners under the age of 16 are automatically disqualified.

   ________________________________________

The history of Euro Millions began in 1994. Originally, the idea had been to launch this new Euro Lottery at around the same time as a single European currency, but as often happens, bureaucracy, politics and other miscellaneous factors meant that the plan was delayed a number of times before coming to fruition some ten years later.

The first Euro Millions lottery draw took place on Friday 13th February, 2004. It was originally presented by three major lottery organisers: Camelot in the United Kingdom who run the UK National Lottery, Francaise des Jeux in France and the Loterias y Apuestas des Estad in Spain. The first jackpot was worth 15 million Euros. The highest has been over 183,000,000 euros, which was won by three people. The largest single winner was Delores McNamara who won ?115.6 million ($139,000,000 or $77,000,000).

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