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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +66873637092 (Thailand, probably a mobile phone)
• 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.
  • guklottery1111111111111111111111@yahoo.com.hk
  • kaneiva7778@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: kaneiva7778@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:07:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


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- YAHOO AWARD WINNING 2008 YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY CONGRATULATIONS!!!DEAR LUCKY WINNER,Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year 2008,All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada. Australia. United State, Asia. Europe. Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ($600.000.00)This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies and the WORLD BANK as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base,Furthermore your details (e-mail address) falls within our ASIAN representative office in BANGKOK THAILAND as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ($600.000.00) will be released to you from this regional branch office in BANGKOK THAILAND,HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,these are your identification number(Batch number:........12115-04/SZ)(Loto number:.........RN/0999/171ESP)(Winning numbers.........9-13-21-30-3144)NOTE THIS:YOU ARE NOW BEING ADVISED TO CALL THE TELEPHONE NUMBER BELOW TO TRACK YOUR PAYMENT ON LINE WORLD BANK TELEPHONE BANKING SYSTEM THE WORLD BANK BANKERS BANK FUND CONFIRMATION UNIT IN SWITZERLAND THE WORLD BANK FUND CONFIRMATION UNIT,TEL: (0041 -445801493) ext. 4 /( FAX: 0041-43-430-21-02)LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPOSIT ACCOUNT TRACKING NUMBER IS: 784285 #Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:As part of our security protocol you are to quote this security code to your claim agent. This to prevent scam (YLAW/AUG/XX07)NOTE: that we are staffs of Accu Lotto hired by YAHOO LOTTERY to coordinate Asian Division Lottery you can visit our web site below for more details,ACCU L0TTO.BANGKOK 10120 THAILAND,(Tel: +66-87363-7092)(EMAIL:kaneiva7778@yahoo.com.hk)Contact Person: MR KANE IVA (www.acculotto.com)Telephone lines are open between the hours of 8:00am-19:30pm.Monday -Saturday (...Ext...001)You are to send the completed verification form below to the Agent in ASIAN DIVISION THAILAND whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!(1) FULL NAME(2)COUNTRY OF ORIGIN(3) PRESENT ADDRESS.(4) DATE OF BIRTH(5) OCCUPATION(6)TELEPHONE NUMBER(7)FAX NUMBER (8) MARITAL STATUS(9) SECURITY CODE(10)WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER,For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you,This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel,Yours Sincerely,Mr. Chris Chang (VICE PRESIDENT)

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