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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments 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.
  • +447024064839 (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.
  • rivofinance1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "thambo philips" <thpilips1@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:05:05 +0000
Subject: Philips.


WINNING NOTIFICATION:

The National Lottery
P O Box 4568 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/GR-W1NOV
Batch: 09/1966.ABINO


We happily announce to you that you are a winner of the draw (#1061) of the
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on
Wednesday 22nd of February, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 36485606547 209 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:05-09-27-35-42-43 (bonus no.14), which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000(Five
hundred thousand pounds ) in cash credited to file KTU/30123557367/06.This
is from a total cash prize of £5,000,000 shared amongst the (10)
lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number
falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as
indicated
in your play coupon. In view of this, your £500,000(Five hundred thousand
pounds ) would be
released to you by any of our affiliated courier/security companies. Our
fiduciary agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact him. 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 part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for your claim,
please contact our Finance company,with your full
name,address and draw number which is (#1061}

MR. PHILIPS JACK
RIVONIA FINANCE LIMITED
EMAIL:rivofinance1@gmail.com
PHONE: +44-702-406-4839
FAX: +44-709-287-7229

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings
and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Thambo Philips.
Online coordinator



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