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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:
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD<assigned006@live.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:48:54 GMT
Subject: Your email was among our 10 winners for Feburary,2008

THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD wishes to thank you for being a user of the world wide web.We are pleased to inform
you that your email address has emerged as one of the winning email accounts of 753 437.00 GBP Great British Pounds in
the just concluded UK LOTTERY PROMO email award. To file for your claim

Please contact us with great proof that you own this winner email.A proper verification has to be carried out before we
could approve you as the winner of this month's lottery award.

Contact us for further details and let us have your Name: Address: Sex:Age: Country of residence:Telephone number:

Yours Truly,
Sir Mark Dulle.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam