joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

• About the 419 (Advance Fee) scam
• "Is that email a scam?" - Check it online here!
  
• Frequently asked Questions (419 FAQ)
• Phone numbers used by 419 scammers
  (+225 +229 +234 +27 +31 +32 +34 +44 other)
• Company names mentioned in 419 spam:
  1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Support our efforts to stop scams!
  
• How to report 419 spam to us
• What can you do when you receive 419 spam
  
  
• Spam archive, Daily index
  

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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

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:
  • "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.
  • +447011121121 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712565434 (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.
  • flc_claim@yahoo.com.hk
  • flc_financier@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FreeLottoCompany_2006" <flc_dept@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:01:33 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
Free lotto Headquarters:
Customer Service
Award Dept.
www.freelotto.com
Ref No: NL/174/490/FL
Batch No:WN/0935-09

WINNING NOTIFICATION We happily announce to you the draw of the Free
Lotto International programs held on the 29th of August, 2006. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 418 8354952 518 with Serial number
9418/07 drew the lucky numbers: 91-0-42-79-35-8, which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£1,000,000.00(One million Great British pound sterling) in cash credited.

This is from a total cash prize of £240,000,000 (Two hundred and fourty
million pounds sterling) shared amongst the lucky winners in this grand
category.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for Free Lottery.

The estimated £125 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in free
lotto history.
The biggest was the £363 million jackpot that went to two winners in a
May 2000 drawing of The Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our United
Kingdom booklet representative office in London as indicated in our play
coupon.

In view of this, your £1,000,000.00(One million Great British pound
sterling) would be released to you physically by our affiliate Bank.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him.

All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide Web' site
through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.

This promotion takes place annually.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the
below details for processing of your claims.

NAME:Dever Michael (Payment Director)
FINANCIER BROKERS UK
PHONE NUMBER:+44 70 1112 1121
FAX NUMBER: +44 87 1256 5434
Email: flc_claim@yahoo.com.hk
flc_financier@yahoo.com.hk

Note that all claims process and clearance procedures must be duly
completed early to avoid impersonation arising to the issue of double
claim.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated
agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Linda Royal
(Lottery Coordinator)
_______________________________________________________________________
The Free Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Mackintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies. The free lotto internet draw
is held quarterly every year and is so organized to encourage the use
of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over
£200 Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries
worldwide. We also encourage you to visit our website www.freelotto.com and
take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions
are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto
service.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam