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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 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)
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • terrycole01@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:38:10 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Congratulation_You_Have_Won_=A3800=2C000=2E00=21=21=21?=

The Irish Lottery
11 G Lower Dorset Street
Northern Ireland.
SUCCESS ALERT:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

WINNINGS NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to notify you the draw (#998) of the IRISH LOTTERY, Online Sweepstakes International Lottery.The result of our computer draw (#978) selected your name and email address attached to:

Your winning Numbers are;
Winning Num: 02, 12, 24, 38, 39, 45, Bonus 05
Batch Num: Batch: R3/A312-59
Reference Num: Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05

You have been approved to claim a total sum of £800,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSANDS POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file SH231282. This is from a total cash prize of £32,200,000.00 GBP shared amongst the first Four (4) lucky winners in this category.
To file your claim, please contact the company's Fiduciary agent with the informations requested below via the following details :

Mr. Mr.Terry Cole. (Fudiciary Agent)
Email:Terrycole01@hotmail.com
1.Full Names........................................
2.Full Address(country).............................
3.Telephone Number.............
4.Sex.............
5.Age...............
4.Occupation........

I,......................................HEREBY DECLARE THAT I HAVE NEVER RECIEVED ANY SETTLEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION WINNING NOR HAVE ANY MEMBER OF MY FAMILY FILLED CLAIM ON MY BEHALF TO NATIONAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION. I, THEREFORE ASK THE IRISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING PROMOTION TO ACT ON MY BEHALF IN THE PROCESSING AND TRANSFER MY PRIZE AS INSTRUCTED BY ME.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of sincerity, if you are not the intended winner please do notify us so as to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Lorraine Duncan Lubeck,.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam