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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:
  • ",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.
  • david.elliss1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: info@dyl.org
Reply-To: david.elliss1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:11:19 +0400
Subject: REF No: BT/9420X/05

British National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM


REF No: BT/9420X/05
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Winner,

Your email address attached to ticket number: 23-0148-790-459 with Serial
number 5368/05 drew the lucky number: 29 and we write to congratulate you as
your email address has won you 3,000,000.00GB Pounds in the recently conducted
software email lottery by British National Lottery.

This was done after email addresses were randomly selected by our database
software powered by the Internet and your email address was among those chosen
this quarter.You are to contact our Legal Department Officer Immediately For
the claim of this cash prize.

Claims Processing Officer:

Mr. David Elliss
(Legal Department Office)
Email: david.elliss1@hotmail.com

Fill & Submit the form Below.

1.Full Names:
2.Address:
3.Age:
4.Sex:
5.Marital Status:
6.Occupation:
7.Phone and fax numbers :
8.country:
9.Amount won:

Mrs. Caroline Stevens
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Sweepstakes International Program.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam