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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.
  • barclaysbankplc17@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: frank morrison <claimsoffice_agentfrank@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:52:19 +0100 (BST)
Subject: YOU ARE WASTING MUCH TIME ABOUT YOUR WINNINGS


Mr Falke Kaisermann,

Will have earlier told you that since the day your winning notification was announced to you, since that day your winning document has left this department to the paying bank, so far so good your winning document has left his office over a week ago.

All u need to do is to contact the paying bank with your account information with is most needed by the bank.

Immediately you contact the bank with proper information needed, your winnings will be transfer to your account at once, there is no problem about it at all, you are the one delaying your time.

You are hereby advised to make payments for the cost of transferring your winnings funds from the paying bank as you happen to be the only winner yet to claim the lottery winnings.

Once again will do not have mush time trading with mails go direct to the next procedure, here is the bank address again: barclaysbankplc17@gmail.com

wish you Good luck,

Regards Mr frank Cooker.


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