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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 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:
  • "claim 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 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.
  • skylegalchember@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Danny Ellen" <lotterycoordinators@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:13:17 +0700
Subject: Your E-mail Awarded $500,000usd




AWARD PRIZE: USD $500,000

CONTACT : BAR .STEVEN CHUNG

AWARD FINANCE DEPARTMENTS

ACCREDITTED EGENCY.

REF NO: UK/ 776090X2/23

BATCH NO: 013/05/8394369

WEBSITE: www.national-lottery.com

EMAIL: skylegalchember@excite.com

DEAR WINNER,

Following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic Online Sweepstakes organised by the Citi Bank financial institution ,the slidecircuir Award and the Heineken prize in conjuction with the foundation for the promotion of softwareproduct [ f.p.s] held on the 14th August 2006 in London F1J 6H United Kingdom,Wherein your electronic email address emerged as one of the online winning emails in the 1st category and therefore attracteda cash award of USD$500,000 { Five Hundred Thousand American Dollars Only}.Congratulations.

We write to notify you of this award to advise you contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more informations concerning the verification processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.

It is important to note that your award information was released today the 23rd August 2006 with the followingparticulars attached o it.

Ticket No: 8603775966738

Serial No :5368/02

Winning No: 03,15,21,22,36,47,27 { Bonus No:17}

Please contact the claim agent mentioned above within 5 days to facilitate the realise of your prize ,You are required to only o send the below informations to him for the process of your Award Certiticate free to enhance the payments fund to you by cash ,or Citi bank remmittance to your a/c to be submitted later.

Your Full Name

Your Address and Nationality.

Your Date of Birth.

Your Cccupation

Your Phone / Fax if any.

This Award is sponsored by a consortium Software promotion Companies ,The Intel Group ,Dell Computers,Microsoft and other International Companies to encourage the use of the internate and promote computer literacy worldwide.

We are proud to say that over 20 million American Dollas are won annually in more than 150 Countries worldwide.

Remember ,All winning must be claimed not later than 23rd September 2006.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch number in all correspondence .

Once again ,on behalf of all our ataff ,CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

Mrs Danny Ellen

Promotional co-ordinator.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam