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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims 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.
  • +447031846515 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIONAL LOTTO" <chrisbosman@she.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: carls@alemail.com
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 03:29:53 -0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE.
Dear Winner,

The National Dayzerslottery NL wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail
address ballot lottery international program held in The Netherlands on 16th December, 2005. Your email address was attached to ticket number 56475600545-188, with serial number 5386/02 drew with lucky numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently you Won the lottery in the (B) category.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from 30 Thousand company and
individual email addresses. You are therefore been approved for a lump sum of One Million Two Hundred Thousand Euro. (€1,200,000.00 ) Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,

For the release of your winning,kindly contact the approved claims agent:-
Mr.Barel Van Hans (Processing Manager)
TEL: 0031 646 744 063 FAX: 0031 847 552 270
United Kingdom Office: +44-70-31846-515
EMAIL: carls@alemail.com or lotterycliamsagent@walla.com

Our agent will immediately commence Your claim process to facilitate
the Release of your funds as soon as you contact him and you are to
quote your lucky number for confirmation on your winning in every
correspondences with claims agent.
All winning must be claimed not
later than One month of recieving this Notice.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Carls
Zonal Co-ordinator (Promotions Director Office NL)
www.dayzers.nl

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam