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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million 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)
  • "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)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • +447045763380 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: GOOGLE 10TH ANNIVERSARY PROMOTION <googleuk@networld.at> (may be fake)
Reply-To: garrystover01@live.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 07:35:20 +0100
Subject: Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06


GOOGLE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION,
GOOGLE B.V. 44 9459 PE.
20 Dawnson street,Staines
Midxel TW10 8TP , London, UK
Phone: +44-704-576-3380

Attn: Google winner,

GoogleUK has successfully organized for the second time a Cash
Give-Away marking 2008 10th Anniversary in the UK. Over
Five Million Dollars is to be given out for this Anniversary Draws.
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars for each of our grant user of Google.

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:

YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:

Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12
Ticket number: 00869575733664
Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06
Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
Winning Amount: 500,000.00 Dollars

To claim your give-away prize, send the following details to your claims
officer

NAME IN FULL:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
TEL:
FAX:
EMAIL:
OCCUPATION/AGE:
=====================================================
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TRANSFER DIRECTOR.
Dr Garry Stover
E-mail:garrystover01@live.com

I....................will be most grateful if you can furnish me with your
proceedures for this claim and transfer of my proceeds of my winning
to me as the Beneficiary to the funds. My contact information is above.


I anticipate your kind consideration in this matter.

Yours faithfully,

===================================================

Thank you for using Google.

Best Regards,
Barr. Sleu Herl





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