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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:
  • ",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)
• 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.
  • +447044570987 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • liveworldresult1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: liveworldresult1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:43:30 -0500
Subject: Draws Result !!!!


Live Promo Organosation Central Office.
Management and Central Services:
London, United Kingdom.

Live Lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
20,000,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by
an automated
random computer ballot search from the internet as part of our
international
promotions program which we conduct every year. No tickets were
sold.

This program is organized by the National Lottery Commision,
international lotto and
games subcommittee, endorsed by the European lottery guild in
conjunction
with NGO organizations in London.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address
attached to serial
number 02-87-87 drew the lucky numbers 4-11-41-26-02-62, which
consequently
emerged you as one of first ten (10 lucky winners in the
United Kingdom
category.)

To Claims Prize Fill the Datas Below send it via Email or Fax
to
Full Name
Email Address
Home Address
Sex
Age
Occupation
Tel
Country

Information and Payment Bureau:
Help Service Contact (Mr Bruce Washburn)
E-mail : liveworldresult1@hotmail.com
Phone : +44 704 4570 9877

Mr Baker Kevin
Promotions Manager.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam