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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.
• 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.
  • lottcajas1001@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: info winner <info@oner5.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:47:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CLAIM INFORMATION!


LOTERIA PRIMITIVA,
Gregorio Herrraez 15
Postcode 28033
Barcelona, Spain
REF NO; ILPB68458557
Ticket No; 290052202CH.
In view of the yearly sweepstake of the above named organization held
on the 20th Oct 2006. It is my pleasure to inform you that your e-mail
address attached to the above ballot No came up in the third stake.
This invariably means that you have emerged as the prize recipient in
the third category with an allocated sum of Eight Hundred and Fifty
Thousand United States Dollars (US$850, 000, 00:00) in the open ballot device.
Be informed that all participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email
addresses from all over the world, as part of our international promotions
program, which we conduct once every year.
For immediate release of your cash prize, kindly contact our Paying Bank.
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT CAJA MADRID
MR. ALEX DIMAS {Claims Supervisor}
TEL: + 34 692 957 743
EMAIL: lottcajas1001@aim.com
C/ARROYO DE LA MIEL
28007 MADRID ESPANA
Congratulations once again.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Eva .C. Vicente
Coordinator

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