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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.
• 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.
  • +447024080465 (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.
  • agentalexbrown1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: pridecasino_info@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:13:52 -0800
Subject: PRIDE CASINO PRIZE

PRIDE CASINO
UK Casino Association
38, Grosvenor Gardens London SW1W 0EB
United Kingdom.


CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Attn: Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#977) of the UK Pride Casino program, Wheel E-game held on 9Th of November 2006 which is yet to be claimed by you since our first notification sent to you and be well informed that this will be our final notice to you regarding to your won prize claim.

Congratulations once more on your email coupon which was selected among the 15 lucky prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.BCA-545411 and was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 50,000 different email addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

Reference Number: BPC 771537/999-6013/YIN
Coupon Number: BCA-545411
Prize Amount: £1.8 Million (One Million, Eight Hundred Thousand
British Pounds Sterling).

You are required to file/complete claims for your lottery prize winning award before 14 days by contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning information provided above to process your won prize claim for your payment through our approved payment center before date above mentioned as it start counting from this day of our last notification.

Claims Processing Officer: Mr. Alex Brown
Email: agentalexbrown1@yahoo.com
Tel: +447024080465

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,please remember to quote your Reference and Coupon numbers in every of your correspondences to your Claim processing officer. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address during the transaction, do inform your Claim processing officer as soon as possible.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming UK Casino Association Billion Pouds Sterling Jackpot.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Dorothy Jean Allen.
(Lottery Coordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

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