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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "irish lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • irishlotterycoperateunit12@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: info@IrishLottery.org
Reply-To: irishlotterycoperateunit12@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:36:58 +0400
Subject:

Irish/Lottery Incoperation Company
Waley House, Hari Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom .

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of the Irish Lottery Promotion end of the year Online Promotion held on july,2008.

This is the last as we are about distributing winnings to winners.Your email address was attached to Reference NumberUK/9420X2/68 was picked as one of the ten winning email addresses.

This has qualified you to claim the total cash prize Of 700,000(Seven hundred thousand Pound Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £7,534,370.00shared amongst the first ten (10) winners in this category.

CLAMS PROCESSING FORM FOR FILLING OF CLAIMS.
1. Full name..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............
8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation.............
10.Present Company........
11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14.Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:
(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Email: irishlotterycoperateunit12@yahoo.com

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam