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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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)
  • "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +447024035243 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: onlineanouncer4@mchsi.com (undpanouncer@undp.org)
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:51:09 +0000
Subject: UNITED NATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

UNITED NATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Corporate Headquarters,91 Station Road,
West Drayton United Kingdom.

The UNITED NATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM would like to notify you that you have
been chosen by the board of DEVELOPMENT BOARD as the full recipient of a cash
Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational,Working and business
development TO receive the sum of �500,000.00 Five Hundred Pounds. The UNITED
NATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, established 1877 by the Multi-Million groups and now
supported by the FBI,Economic Community for West African State (ECOWAS)and the
European Union (EU). Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites
and millions of supermarket cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the
recipients to receive the award sum of �500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand
British pounds starlings) as charity donations/aid from the UNITED NATION
ORGANIZATION ,ECOWAS and EU EUROPEAN UNION in accordance with the enabling act
of Parliament, All beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from
over 100,000 internet websites around the World.

You are required to contact our company representative whom will be in charge of
your claim with the below information:

FULL NAMES : ADDRESS : COUNTRY : SEX : AGE : OCCUPATION : TELEPHONE NUMBER:

Send all the requested claim information to your allocated claim officer:
Mr. Thompson Powell
Email: mrthomaspowell01@live.com
Tel Number: +447024035243
+447024083274

NOTE: you will be given your secret code number,which you will use in collecting
your Five Hundred Thousand British pounds starlings, endeavor to quote your
Qualification numbers (NG-022-607AB) in all discussions.

Warm Regards.
Dr. Gray Stephen
(Online Announcer UNDP)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam