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

Fraud email example:

From: herish@herishclemehoff.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:59:43 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Winning Final Notification.


Winning Final Notification.
FROM: GLOBAL SWEEPTAKES MEGALOTERIA ANNUAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS.
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER.
Dear Lucky Winner,
RE: GLOBAL SWEEPTAKES MEGALOTERIA PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION!
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
Final draws of global sweeptakes megaloteria Lottery Programs held on the
17th November 2006.
METHOD OF SELECTING WINNERS:
Participants were selected anonymously through online cyber ballot system
(Computer Ballot) from over 35,000 companies and 70,000 individual names
and e-mail addresses all over the world. At the final draw your e-mail
address emerged as the winner of our last jackpot.
This promotional program takes place annually as the year starts, and it is
promoted and sponsored by Orient software corporation (Orient Networks).
It is meant to reward some individuals and corporations who have devoted
their time and resources surfing the World Wide Web (www) .No tickets were
sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as the
winner in the category "A" with the following:
Ref Number: 5567/113-0078/GNL
Batch Number: 1881645-GNL/2006
Ticket Number: 9007-1809
Draw Lucky Numbers: 22100-15-007
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
€850,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EUROS ), Congratulation!
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claim processing of your prize winnings, you are advice to
contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for category "A" winner
with the information's below:
Mr.Albert Grissom
Director Of Operations,
Hartland Trust And Finance Agency.
117 Bijlmerplein,1104 MG, Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
Contact E-mail Address: admnfinance@aim.com
TEL: 0031 624 286 015
FAX: 0031 847 104 105
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than the 6th of December
2006. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next
stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
Due to mix up of some numbers and names/programme abuse, we ask that you
keep your winning information confidential until your claim 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 by
some participants.
Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Herish Clemehoff(Lottery Coordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam