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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• 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.
  • clara.agent01@strompost.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Online Co-ordinator" <infomail@hamdard.net.pk>
Reply-To: clara.agent01@strompost.com
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:32:16 +0500
Subject: Ticket Number: 56475600545 188


Dear Winner,
Your ticket number:ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number
5368/05, draw lucky number: 18 Congratulations,you have just won
yourself £1,293,634 pounds (ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY THREE
THOUSAND,SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR POUND STERLING) in the satellite
software email lottery conducted by UK NATIONAL LOTTERY in
which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by software powered by the
Internet.Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter and
you
are to contact our Financial Controller for Clearance.

info:MRS CLARA MOORE
Email:clara.agent01@strompost.com

You are to forward the following
details to enable us clear your file
for immediate payment
Full Names:
Address
Age
Sex
Occupation
Phone numbers
Fax number
Country

Yours faithfully,
Doris moris(Mrs)
Uk Lottery Board
UNITED KINGDOM.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam