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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:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • claimsofficer_agentallen@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FRANK ANDERSON" <f-anderson@btconnect.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:18:41 +0100
Subject: DEAR WINNER.........


THE NATIONAL LOTTERY AFFILIATE TO THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws held on (25th August, 2007) by Coca-Cola in
conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion,
your email wasamong the 20 Lucky winners who won £178,226 each on the THE COCA- COLA COMPANY PROMOTION

However the results were released on the 26th August, 2007 and your
email was attached to ticket number (56475600545188) and Serial
Numbers (5368/02) The online draws wasconducted by a random
selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals andcorporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in ourcomputerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.In other to claim your £178,226 prize winning, which has
been deposited in a designated bank.

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM:

1 FULL NAMES.........
2 HOME ADDRESS .........
3 STATE / PROVINCE........
4 COUNTRY ..................
5 PHONE NUMBER.........
6 AMOUNT WON...........
7 TICKET NUMBER...........
8 SERIAL NUMBER.............
Mr Denis Allen
Recruiter (HR DEPT.)
Coca Cola Lottery Promo
Email;claimsofficer_agentallen@yahoo.co.uk

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam