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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447031967562 (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.
  • agentphilips@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ALLEN ANDERSON" <allenanderson02@msn.com>
Reply-To: agentphilips@myway.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:43:50 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
AWARD DEPARTMENT.

P O Box 1010,
L70 1NL Liverpool,
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

Ref: FER/4690/6103/24
Batch:245-379-482
Winning No:701/RMD123
WINNING NOTIFICATION
Attn: We happily announce to you the draw of the Bono Lottery International
Program held on the 10th of Jan, 2006. Your name "email address" was attached
to ticket number; 12324277 serial number 6663817262 This batch draws the
lucky numbers as follows 2-9-22-23-24-30 bonus number 5, which consequently
won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of £1,800,000.00 (ONE MILLION EIGHT
HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) file
Ref: FER/8309/1209/26 from the total cash prize of 18,000,000.00 shared
amongst ten lucky winners based on their category.

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada,Australia,United
States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international
promotionsprogram which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies as including
Bill Gates, and some other EU governmental personalities part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the
The promotions Manager with this information:

NAME:..................................
ADDRESS:...............................
NATIONALITY:...........................
SEX:...................................
AGE:...................................
PHONE/MOBILE:..........................
FAX:...................................
OCCUPATION:............................
COMPANY:...............................
BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:............................................


MR.JOHN PHILIPS:EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
Email:agentphilips@myway.com
Tel +44-703-196-7562

Fax-+44-707-505-5241
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential
from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to
you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual claiming and unwarranted
taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards
MARIA STEPHENS
Co-coordinator
EUROPEANUNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.

Yours faithfully,
MARIA STEPHEN.
Online coordinator
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS,
Open 7 days 7am-7pm.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam