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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:

• 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.
  • unionsecuritynetwork@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "aliciasantosper@terra.es" <aliciasantosper@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:47:23 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: LUCKY ONE


REF. NO: EUROMILL/VICT799-08
BATCH. NO: GTTHQ/AWDWIN-08. =20
Happy New Year Winner
The coordinator euro million lottery wish to congratulate you for winning o=
ur prize award attached your email based on ticket number (8 24 36 49 50 ST=
AR NO. 4+8) you have won the sum of =E2=82=AC799.925, 26. This is the euro =
million lottery games which email were used to select winner, therefore you=
do not need to buy ticket to enter for lottery. To claim your winning cont=
act vlaims agent quote your ticket number all correspondence.
To get more info/claim, please contact Operations Department:
(UNION SECURITYNETWORK SA) =20
ATTN: TOM GOMEZ
+ 34 620 357 178
E-mail: unionsecuritynetwork@gmail.com
Email: unionsecuritynetwork@libero.it
Sincerely yours,=20
Mrs. Elizabeth Agustin Lopez=20
Lottery Coordinator. =20
http://www.national-lottery.com/resultseuro.asp





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