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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:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • masonryan_agent@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Nupert Brown <nupertbrown11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <masonryan_agent@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:49:37 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOUR E-MAIL WON OUR LOTTERY


ACCULOTTO ONLINE INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY 1-3 Leinster Gardens, London W2 6DP London FROM: THE PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR (WINNING NOTIFICATION DEPT.) Dear Winner, We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the ACCULOTTO ONLINE INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY held on for this year's EASTER is now available for claims. Your e-mail address with serial number: 56475600545 won the lottery.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $ 1.100000(One million,One hundred Thousand Dollars). NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A TICKET LOTTERY AND THE e-mails addresses of all participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites, Email directories, the email key index server and a host of other sources where both newly registred and old emails through computer draw system. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African booklet. In view of this, your$ 1.100000 (One million,One hundred Thousand Dollars) will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Africa. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: Dr Mason Ryan Email: masonryan_agent@yahoo.com.hk Endeavor to email him your: Full names Age Sex occupation Country Contact address Phone number Congratulations from me and members of staff of ACCULOTTO ONLINE INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY Yours faithfully, JACK GWEEN Online coordinator. Sweepstakes International Program.
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