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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • +447024093465 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • johncoker222@yahoo.com.sg (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • wrldgoldelinkexpress@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?john=20coker?= <johncoker222@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:50:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: johncoker222@yahoo.com.sg

Attn:

- UK-LOTTO ORGANIZATION Ticket Free/Online Winnings and Notification Department Online winnings dept. Ref Number: UK/9420X2/68 Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369 Telephone: +447024093465 WINNINGS NOTIFICATION OF US$4.2M We happily announce to you the draw of the Uk-Lotto Sweepstake Lottery International programs held in Bangkok-Thailand on the 22nd of May, 2006 . Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:07-12-23-26-29-44 which subsequently won you the lottery in the first category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £2,367,834(Two million, three hundred and sixty seven thousand, eight hundred and thirty four British Pounds sterling) which is approximately USD4.2m, from total cash prize of £23,678,340 was shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. The World Golden Express Link has been given the Contract to deliver all our winners cheque to the address of the respective winners. World Golden express Link THAILAND COMPANY LTD Rachadaphisek Bangkok, Thailand. Contact Agent: MIKE SMITH (Director of Operations and Logistics) Email address: wrldgoldelinkexpress@excite.com Should you want your winning fund to be paid by cash/wired to your Bank account, Endevour to state this accordingly in your responce to the contact Agent MIKE SMITH for necessary attention. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your full names,telephone number, Age and occupation, Winnings numbers [such as batch,ref, serial and lucky winning number],your country and address where you want to receive your winnings cheque in your contact mail to MIKE SMITH Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery programm. For safety measures and to avoid fruadulent claims you are adviced to keep all about your winnings information and notification confidential and away from all third parties till your check arrives your address. Congratulations once more from all the members and staffs of this program. Goodluck. JOHN COKER Online Co-ordinator/Notification Officer Sweepstakes International Program. Telephone:+447024093465.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam