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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:

• 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")
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (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 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.
  • bestwhicte01@yahoo.co.uk
  • bestwhicte02@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: bestwhicte02@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:34:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM:Prime laurels International Lotto Promotions 2010 World Cup Lotto


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:natchabaouattaraf@yahoo.com.co



- FROM:Prime laurels International Lotto Promotions 2010 World Cup Lotto promotion,SouthAfrica Dear Winner,Winning Notification This is to notify you that you have been selected as one of the winners of the Prime laurels International Lotto Promotions sponsors of the 2010 world cup lotto promotion,SouthAfrica and thus will be a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of (US$5,500,000.00) FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY, throw and fro tciket to South Africa and free ticket to watch the whole match in our online email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by computerised balloting powered by the Internet.Also find all the relevant winning lottery information below: Ticket No:2752246896 177 Draw Serial No: 35/751346 Batch No: 06-A852 Zonal Draw No: A2-003 Grand Draw No: 12099 Winners Certficate No:E021453 To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the payment of your prize is to be handled by our fiduciary agent.You are to fill the claims verification data form below and send to our fiduciary agent to commence action on your payment.Please find full contact details of the agent below MR. W.BEST FIDUCIARY AGENT(PRIME LAURELS INT.LOTTO PROM.)EMAIL:bestwhicte01@yahoo.co.uk bestwhicte02@hotmail.com CLAIMS VERIFICATION DATA FORM(HTML FORM) FULL NAME: ...................................................ADDRESS:..........................................................SEX:......................................................PHONE NUMBER:.................................................OCCUPATION:...................................................POSITION:..........................................................AGE:..........................................................Yours faithfully, Jackson White

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