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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",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 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.
  • +447024055441 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709746770 (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.
  • johnthomas_0001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • claimofficemgr2010@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com" <johnthomas_0001@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:04:26 +0100
Subject: Congratulations!!!!!!!


**
*[image: Yahoo! News - Lottery]* *Messenger **Yahoo! Lottery Results **You
won £820,000.00! Yahoo!** Mail congratulates you!** *
**
*Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing
Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 4th of October, 2007. *

*All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States
, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been
approved for a total pay out of **£820,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND
TWENTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ).*
*This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some**
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more
your details(e-mail address) falls within our British representative office
in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of **£
820,000.00 will be released to you through our corresponding paying bank in
the UK.*

*HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE*

*Stated below are your Identification numbers!!.*

*Batch Number..................... Ku093u7u8*
*Lotto Number.......................90648200195t*
*Winning Number...................Bz268g72p*

*Contact Yahoos Agent for Notice of claims.*
**
***Contact Fiduciary Agent**:*
**
*Mr John Thomas*

* Emails: <Johnthomas_0001@yahoo.com>

Contact Email`: <johnthomas_0001@yahoo.com>

Tel :+44 702 405 5441

Fax:+44 870 974 6770
* *<http://us.f519.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=claimofficemgr2010@katamail.com>
*
* *
*You are to send the completed verification form below to our Agent in
the South Africa whose email address is given above so that you will be
advised on what to do to claim your prize money through our corresponding
payment bank (First National Bank of South Africa)FNB.*
* *
* Congratulations once more!!*
* *
* AWARD WINNING CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that:
FIRST NAME: ….................... MIDDLE NAME:…................
LAST NAME: …............................

DATE OF BIRTH:.............. MARITAL STATUS..................
OCCUPATION:……………………..
HOME ADDRESS:.............. .….….………..……………..…..……
STATE: …………………..
ZIP CODE:………… COUNTRY ……………
NATIONALITY :………………..
TELEPHONE:............................... FAX NO (If
available):.................................

Reference Number: ………………………………………………
Batch Number: ……………………………………………………..…….…
Winning Numbers: ………………………………………………………..……
Beneficiary winning amount:……………..……….……………..……


DO YOU WANT TO BE PAID BY : BANK TRANSFER, CHEQUE, ON- LINE BANK
TRANSFER ..........................................

BANK NAME:...........................

BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER:.......................... SWIFT CODE
...............

BANK
ADDRESS:...............................................................

BANK TELEPHONE NUMBER:..................................

FAX NUMBER............................................


A COPY OF YOUR PERSONAL PASSPORT
*
*** *
*For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential
until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. Also note that
you are not to reply to these message, You are to contact the WINNING AGENT
attached to your winning prize, Mr. John Thomas on
johnthomas_0001@yahoo.comor on the Tel/Fax No given above for the
neccesary proceedings.
*
* *
** *Yours Sincerely,*
**** <http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/_javascript:Zoom%28290075%29>

*DR. WILLIAM GERRI *
*YAHOO LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR.*
*The Yahoo.com Organization
**http://www.yahoo.com* <http://www.yahoo.com/>


**
*[image: Yahoo! News - Lottery] Yahoo! Lottery Results *
*Yahoo! **Lottery* <http://lottery.yahoo.com/>* is a free service that does
not require you to be a Yahoo! registered user.*


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