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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:

• 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:
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • +447024055885 (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.
  • yah_lotteryawardclaimsoffice2008@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr YAHOO LOTTERY AWARD OFFICE UK Mr YAHOO LOTTERY AWARD OFFICE UK <yah_lotteryawardoffice109@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:05:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: You won X2.000,000.00 GBP! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you !!!!!


You won £2.000,000.00 GBP! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you !!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
YOU WON £2.000,000.00 Great British Poundsterling!!!

YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY


United Kingdom.

Dear, Sir/Madam
Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as one of the 10 top Lucky winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two million Great British Poundsterling. (£2.000,000.00GBP) for the Year, 2008 lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com


Yahoo, collects all the mail id of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger and all internet users .we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for being one of the people selected for this month Promo. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.


This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational Global companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base and Multitude of subscribers in our International Network. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our EUROPEAN representative office in LONDON,UNITED KINGDOM, as indicated in this notice and your prize of £2.000,000.00GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in United Kingdom.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year (2008) high stakes for £1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

KINDLY CONTACT OUR CLAIMS DEPARTMENT CENTRE UNITED KINGDOM .

CONTACT PERSON:DR BERNARD ELLEN
( winner's directorate office )
Email:yah_lotteryawardclaimsoffice2008@yahoo.com

TEL:+447024055885.

These are your Winning identification numbers.

Serial number:.........................5388/02
Draw lucky numbers:..31-6-2613357
Ticket number:.......56475600545 188
Batch number....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number......................Lwh35447
Winning number.................Lwh09788

YOU ARE KINDLY ADVISE TO FORWARD YOUR ABOVE STATED WINNING IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS TO THE CLAIMS OFFICE FOR VERIFICATION, CLARIFICATION AND PROCEEDING CLAIMS.

As soon as you contact the claims office, they will immediately commence the claims process to release your Winning Prize Fund to you.

Congratulations once more!!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your Fund is processed and transferred to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnels.

Yours Sincerely,

DR.JOHNSON BAKE(PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com


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