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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "royal national lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",500,000" (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 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.
  • +447045713307 (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.
  • mr_halescoth@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Royal National Lottery UK" <A01190337@itesm.mx>
Reply-To: mr_halescoth@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:21:33 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTICE FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER -Ref.No.-RNL/051/652659966/UK.

FROM:PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LOTTERY,WINNING NOTICE FOR
SILVER STAKE WINNER -Ref.No.-RNL/051/652659966/UK.

Attention:

The Royal National Lottery has just concluded its final draws of it's periodical
promotional program.An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of
individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer
search from the internet.

No tickets were sold.

Your email address emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes category
as email addresses were soughted,fromatotal number of 25,000 addresses drawn
from all over the globe.

After an automated computer ballot of our Royal National Lottery
program,only SEVEN winners emerged in this category and therefore each are
to receive payouts of EU1,500,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
EURO ONLY) from the total ofEU10,500, 000.00 (TEN MILLION,FIVEHUNDRED
THOUSAND EURO).

However,every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket
number,after the cyber lottoselection,the below ticket and reference numbers
emereged as one of the lucky winners in the above category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- RNL/051/652659966/UK,Ticket
No.- RNL87866UK.

For confirmation of the claim of your prize money, you are to send an email
to our customer service representative with informations below for further
instructions on how you can claim your prize:

Mr Scott Hales
Customer Service Representative
Royal National Lottery UK,
email:mr_halescoth@hotmail.com
contact: +44 704 571 3307

You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process
of collecting your prize.We congratulate you once again and it is our hope
that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest
future.

Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Sincerely,
Promotions Department
Royal National Lottery

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam