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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:
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • "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.
  • +447031944566 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY GIVE-AWAY 2009 <icccm@networld.at> (may be fake)
Reply-To: googdeptuk201@j-mail.info
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:53:10 +0100
Subject: Attn: Googler.


GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

This E-mail is to inform you that you have emerged a winner of £600,000.00 GBP
(Six Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away 1Oth year
Anniversary draws. Google UK has successfully organized for the second time a
Cash Give-Aways marking 2009 10th Anniversary in the UK. Over £24,000,000.00
(Twenty Four Million British pounds) are to be given out for this Anniversary
Draws. No purchase of tickets were required.Participants for the draws were
randomly selected from a world wide range of web searchers who use the Google
search engine (Googler) and other Google ancillary services.

Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make
sure
that it remains the most widely used search engine, Google is running an e-
mail
beta test.


Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers
(CGPN) and attached to the following details: Ticket
number:00396268432743 /Serial numbers:/BTD/3070746602/04/ Lucky numbers:
18-02-25-32-11-21(33)/(CGPN)71-24-07-01-88-16 was picked among our lucky
winners to receive £600, 000.00 British pounds.Winners were selected randomly
through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search
engine.


YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:
Computer Generated Profile Numbers
(CGPN):71-24-07-01-88-16
Ticket number: 00396268432743
Serial numbers: /BTD/3070746602/04/
Lucky numbers: 18-02-25-32-11-21(33)

To claim your give-away prize , send the following

Your Full Names.................
Sex...............................
Age...............................
Occupation......................
Location............................
Country........................
Tel Number/Mobile Number............
Alternate E-mail Add..................
Your Winning Details.................

To your processing agent (Larry Page) who have been assigned to handle your
winning file and payment processing.

Your Processing Agent contact:
Mr. Larry Page,
Email: googdeptuk201@j-mail.info
TEL: +44-703-194-4566, +44-703-192-3769
FAX: +44-700-602-3663.

We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.

Thank you for using Google.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Rachel Whetstone.
(Promo. Director).

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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam