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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "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 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.
  • agent.onlineprocessing01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mceyer" <mceyer@usinter.net>
Reply-To: f.smith01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:03:28 -0700
Subject: Google 2008 10th year Anniversary promotion( thanks for using
google.com)‏


Attn: Googler,
              GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
This E-mail is to inform you that you have emerged a winner of £500,000.00 GBP
(Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away 1Oth year
Anniversary draws.
GoogleUK has successfully organized for the second time a Cash Give-Away
marking 2008 10th Anniversary in the UK. Over £20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million
British pounds) is to be given out for this Anniversary Draws. No purchases of
tickets were required. Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a
world wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine (Googler)
and other Google ancillary services. Google is now the biggest search engine
worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used
search engine, Google is running an e-mail beta test. Your email address was
linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN) and attached to the
following
details: Ticket number: 008695733664 / Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 /
Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) / (CGPN) 7-22-71-00-66-12 was picked among
our lucky winners to receive £500, 000.00 British pounds. Winners were selected
randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google
search engine.
YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:
Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12
Ticket number: 00869575733664
Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06
Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
To claim your give-away prize, send the following
your full names................. , sex...............................,
Location............................
Alternate email address..................Your winning details.................
To your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who have been assigned to
handle your winning file and payment processing.
Your Processing Agent contact:
Mr. Francis Henson,
Email: agent.onlineprocessing01@gmail.com
We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune. Thank you
for
using Google.
Sincerely,
Ms. Lopez Ann Mceyer (promo. Director)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam