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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:
  • "barrister" (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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447045709816 (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.
  • orientclaim.dept@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • ept@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Essex Solicitors" <orientclaim.dept@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:07:15 -0500
Subject: PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM.


*Dear Winner,

Prize Won: 1,800,000.00 Pounds Sterling

Congratulations! on your qualification as a lottery winner in the 2nd
category of our International lottery program tagged Orient Millionaire
Lottery .

This lottery program has been online for a year and a lot of people have
benefited from it. Our aim is to gain voters for the forth-coming world bank
power election. All we need is your vote in support of the Barclay's bank
and Hsbc merger to power the world bank Finance House.

For Orient Millionaire Lottery to make payment to you as a rightful
beneficiary of winning-prize, you are to fill the Orient Millionaire Lottery
payment processing form, for processing of winning-prize entitlement to you.
Along with this mail is the payment processing form. fill the entire fields
in the form and forward the filled form back to me via email:
orientclaim.d<orientclaim.dept@gmail.com>
** ept@gmail.com so as to enable us initiate payment to you immediately.

Your quick reply will be highly appreciated to enable us make payments to
you in good time.

Sincerely Yours,
Barrister Tevin Feda (Esq)
Head Of Clearance Dept.*
Tel: +(44) 704 570 9816


* CLAIM FORM

REFERENCE
NUMBER:....................................................................

TICKET
NUMBER:....................................................................
.......

FULL
NAME:...................................................AGE:...............
..........

OCCUPATION:....................................................SEX:........
............

COMPANY
NAME:......................................................................
.......

RELIGION:..................................................................
.....

FULL
ADDRESS:...................................................................
.............

COUNTRY
NAME:......................................................................
..........

TEL:.......................MOBILE:.........................FAX:............
...................***

*EMAIL:..............................................
.......................
.
HAVE YOU EVER DIRECTLY/INDIRECTLY PARTICIPATED IN ANY LOTTERY PROGRAMME (YES
OR NO) IF YES PLEASE STATE:-------------------

WILL YOU LIKE TO GRANT PRESS CONFERENCE? YES/NO ------------------------

I HEREBY ENDORSE THUS:

Date ;............................
Signature;.........................*

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam