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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (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)
  • ",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.
  • +447031979972 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:17:22 -0700
Subject: Good News!!!

ATTN: SIR/MADAM.
WINNING NOTIFICATION


Congratulations, you have won £2,500,000.00 GBP in the
Canadian Lottery
Promotion. Your email address was sellected, as a winner in
the
second category winners. In cash credited to Reference
number
(EAAL/9080118308/05). (Batch No. Lotto 6/49).

For convertion to your currency (go to) www.xe.com


NOTE:To confirm that you have the winning number for the
Wed April 2ND 2008 2 5 8 20 21 33 Number 11
Draw visit:http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/index.html
confirm under lotto 6/49. All participants were selected
randomly
from World Wide Website through computer draws system and
extracted from over 10 000 00 companies and personal
e-mails. For
security reasons you are advised to keep your
claims/winning information confidential till your claims
is processed and your money remitted to you via
telegraphic bank transfer to your nominated banking
account. Contact your agent for more details.


You are advised to get in contact with your claims agent
(Mr. Trevor Allan) for processing of your winnings for quick
and urgent
release.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications please quote
your reference
numbers in any correspondences with your claims agent MR
TREVOR ALLAN .
=================================
MR. TREVOR ALLAN.
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
(MIDLAND FINANCE UNITED KINGDOM)
P O BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL,
L70 1NL. PHONE:+447031979972
EMAIL: trevorallan24@gala.net
=================================

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice.

Thank you for being part of our Promotional Lottery
program.


Mrs. Patricia Atkins
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER.
CANADIAN LOTTERY-SOCCER WORLD CUP 2010 PROMOTIONAL DRAW.
1550 Princess Street Kingston ON Canada K7M 9E3
Congratulations you have won Canada Lottery!
Attention: Customer AFRSA680
Ref: EAAL/851OYHI/05
Batch No. Lotto 6/49.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification.
Please do not reply to this mail box. Contact your claims
agent through his email contact above.
Congratulations from the Staff & Members of the
Canadian Lottery Board Commission Mr.Savery Aldwin Mr.
Rudolf P. Markhams Mrs. Patricia Atkins
Zonal Co-ordinate Sec. Zonal Co-ordinate PROMOTIONS
MANAGER Copyright 1994-2006-2007 The National Lottery Inc.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam