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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:

• 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.
  • +447045743979 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BMW_AWARD_COMMISSION=A9?= <bmw-customers@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:59:01 +0000
Subject: PLEASE VERIFY TO CLAIM YOUR WINNINGS




Dear Winner,


Congratulations once again
from all the staff here. For the avoidance of doubt, your email address happen
to be one of the emails chosen this quarter from our new java-based software
that randomly selects email addresses from the web. Participants were selected
from the registered email addresses in the Public Key Server -- Index ,it was
drawn from a pool of over 125,000 names in this batch ,participants were taken
from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of
Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions
programme conducted to encourage prospective overseas entries and the
utilization of the internet. So in order to verify your winnings,we need your
winning and personal data for record and verifications
purposes.

Below is a
verifications/data form which you are to fill and submit after online
verification; please fill accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings.


Please attach a recent
passport photograph (optional but advisable)
(For easy identification at
payment point)
1. Reference Number:001/007598590000/11
2. Ticket
number:5647600545188
3. Batch number:14899/013/WC456GM
4. Serial
number:BMWP/556543450906
5. A new BMW 2008 X6 xDrive 35 M Sport Saloon
Car
6. Amount won: £750,000.00
7. FULL NAMES:
8. DATE OF BIRTH:
9.
SEX:
10. MARITAL STATUS:
11. CONTACT ADDRESS:
12. TELEPHONE NUMBER:

13. OCCUPATION:
14. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:


Upon receipt of the duly
requested data, you will receive the contact information of the payment office
to effect the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.


Have a nice day.


George P. Wesley.
Phone:
+44 (7) 045-743-979.
_________________________________________________________________
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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam