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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "camelot lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • contactrussell@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: cheng alex <cheng004@web.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:02:15 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-15?Q?OFFICIER_____NOTICES___PLS_REPLY_TO_THIS__EMAIL__conta?=
=?iso-8859-15?Q?ctrussell@excite.com?=




FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF NO: MELI-T/17-F044262312

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce to you as one of the 6 lucky winners in the CAMELOT LOTTERY PROMOTIONS held on 3rd of July, 2007. All 6 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 40,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 5 others as a 2nd category winner in this quarterly draw.


Consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of £300,000 Pounds (Three Hundred Thousand Pounds) only. The following particulars are attached to your lottery payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 990-11-815-37-10-83
(ii) Email ticket number: 901-0148-790-691
(iii) Lotto Batch No. 13/FFP/LDL/037
(IV) File REF NO: MELI-T/17-F044262312

Please contact our under listed claims attorney as soon as possible for immediate release of your winnings. You can either quote your winning numbers or just forward this mail to his contact email below:


Barr. Russell Chandler
Email: contactrussell@excite.com [mailto:contactrussell@excite.com]

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Vanessa Reed.
LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, UK.

N.B:
1. All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
2. Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims attorney.
3. Do inform the claims attorney of any change of names or addresses.
4. Please contact only your claims attorney assigned to you.
____________________________________________________________
The INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, UK, is proudly sponsored by financial Corps, the Euro American group and a conglomeration of other international IT companies and is organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries around the globe.



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