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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:

• 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 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.
  • phil_cowbell12@yahoo.com
  • philips_cowbell@alexandria.cc

Fraud email example:

From: yahoo result <uk_yah_result18@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:21:38 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!! CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT FOR YOUR
FUND.











Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results You won £820.000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!



Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 15th of January, 2008.

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 somemultinational 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 assing payment bank been (First National Bank) FNB.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your identification numbers.

Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

Contact Yahoo’s Agent for Notice of claims.

Contact Fiduciary Agent:
MR. PHILIPS COWBELL

Email: phil_cowbell12@yahoo.com
OR
philips_cowbell@alexandria.cc


Tel:(44) 703 195 6028.

FAX : (44) 870 471 3277



You are to send the completed verification form below to the our Agent in the United Kingdom whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get 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: FIRSTNAME: …MIDDLE NAME:… (LAST NAME: …

DATE OF BIRTH: MARITAL STATUS (M) (D)……….….(S)………….
OCCUPATION::……………………..
HOME ADDRESS:: .…….………..……………..…..…… STATE: …………………..
ZIP CODE:………… COUNTRY: ……………………. NATIONALITY :………………..
TELEPHONE: ……………………………. FAX: …………………………………
Reference Number: ……………………………………………………………
Batch Number: ……………………………………………………..…….…….
Winning Numbers: ………………………………………………………..……
Beneficiary’s winning amount:……………..……….……………..……


I WANT TO BE PAID BY (BANK TRANSFER) (ON LINE BANK TRANSFER)

BANK NAME:

BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER: SWIFT CODE

BANK ADDRESS:
CITY: COUNTRY: BANK TELEPHONE/ NUMBER: FAX: NUMBER

A COPY OF YOUR PERSONAL PASSPORT

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this informationconfidential from the public until your claim is processed and yourprize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoiddouble claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel.

































Yours Sincerely,Dr WILLIAM T. GARRI (PHD)LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.The Yahoo.com staffYahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com



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