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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447045761885 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "stephane" <stephane.mouteau@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 20:41:39 +0200
Subject: TR: CLAIM YOUR LG LOTTO PROMO PRIZE!!!



-----Message d'origine-----
De : John Nichols [mailto:jayn@alum.mit.edu]
Envoyé : jeudi 1 mai 2008 16:13
À : undisclosed-recipients:
Objet : CLAIM YOUR LG LOTTO PROMO PRIZE!!!

LG LOTTO PROMO
LG House, 250 Bath Road,
Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4DX
DEAR WINNER,
We happily announce to you the draw of the LG LOTTO PROMO
online Sweepstakes International program held on Mon 28 apr
2008 TIME-9:10pm.It is now available for claims and you are getting
the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.Your e-mail address attached
to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers 04, 07, 16, 18, 22, 28.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 850,000,00(
Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand Euro)in cash credited to file
LGE/9023118308/03 and also an LG LAPTOP.All participants for the
online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through
computer draw
system and extracted from over 100,000 please contact our
fiduciary agent:
MR Rivers tencredit JNR.
Email:riverstencredit232@live.com
Tel:+44 70 4576 1885
Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE LG LOTTO PROMO.
Yours faithfully,
John Nichols(Mr)
Online coordinator for THE LG LOTTO PROMO
Sweepstakes International Program.

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