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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • morrisonbon@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Desiree du Sart" <desiree.dusart@mcri.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:02:56 +1000
Subject: Uk National Lottery Prize!!!!




Company No. 02949433
SERIAL NUMBER: 5368/02
TICKET NUMBER: 8603775966738
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369
Ref Number: UK/9420X/05
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final

announcement that you are
one
of our beginning of the year winners of the

UNITED KINGDOM ONLINE
PROMO
AWARDS, held on 1st July , 2008. You have

won for your self
a total sum of £1,200,000 POUNDS

STERLING.

However, no tickets were sold but all email

addresses were assigned to different ticket

numbers for representation and privacy.The

selection process was carried out through

random selection in our computerized email

selection machine(TOPAZ) from a database

of over 250,000 email addresses drawn

from all the continents of the world.

Please you are adviced to complete the form

and send it immediately to our Promotion

manager through email or fax for prompt

collection of your fund from the designated

bank.

Fill the below information’s and send to the

fiduciary agent for your
Claims verification:
FILL THE CLAIMS FORM BELOW AND

SEND
TO OUR CLAIMS AGENT FOR

VERIFICATION
1. Full Names:
2. Address:
3. Age:
4. Sex:
5. Marital Status:
6. Occupation:
7. Phone numbers:
8. Country:

Name: Mr. Morrison Bonnie
e-mail: morrisonbon@yahoo.com.hk

Yours Truly,
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam