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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.
• 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.
  • +447011129839 (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.
  • deutchsolagency@btinternet.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: winner@cglotto.org
Reply-To: cgclaimsoffice@btinternet.com
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:44:23 +0800
Subject: BATCH N=?ISO-8859-1?B?ui46?= 2008UKL-01

The Camelot Group,
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Antree, Liverpool , L30 1RD

WINNING NOTIFICATION
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
Great Britain held on the 2nd April 2008.
Your mail account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out
of Eight hundred and ninty-one thousand,nine hundred and thirty-four
Great Britain pounds (£891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited
to file REF NO. REF:UKL/74-A0802742008. This is from total prize money
of GBP £4,459,670.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners
in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over
100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that
are listed online.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and our money remitted to you. This is part
of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program.

Mr Sean James.
Email:deutchsolagency@btinternet.com
Tel:+447011129839
Fax +44870 478 2022

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money.
Note below your winning details:
Lucky Nº: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17
File REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742008
BATCH Nº.: 2008UKL-01

KINDLY FILL THE VERIFICATION FORM
FULL
NAMES:_______________Sex:____________:Age:______________Occupation_____

_____:ADDRESS:_________________City_____
_______State________________Postcode_______Country____________Tel______
__Nationality

Sincerely,
Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam