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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 united states 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)
• 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 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.
  • nicholasriedel@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Linda D. Welsh" <ldw@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: lindadwelsh@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:49:27 -0500
Subject: Century


CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE

Century E-games 2006,
Date: 20 Feb.2006
Ref Nr: SEP/CA/1226/PR
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,
CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE. Europe/America private
international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, CENTURY LOTTO Group
International, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 19th Feb.-2006 CENTURY LOTTO -wheel E-game which was conducted at our
international corporate office complex in Canada. Most recently this
foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on
COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the
use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to
promote music, theater, art, literature, projects in the social and
political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and
higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the
selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky
consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with coupon No.
PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS)

with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the
E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email
addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.
You have won a consolation cash prize of US $ 1,000.000.00 (One Million
United States Dollars) only. The Century LOTTO Group. , have approved
a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated
directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT
(DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional
information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize. For
due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information/
file Officer: Mr. Nicholas Riedel who has been assigned to assist you.
Contact E-mail:nicholasriedel@yahoo.ca Once again congratulations from
all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will
partake our forth coming CENTURY LOTTO -wheel Email-games.
Regards,
Mrs. Linda D. Welsh
(Group Coordinator)
.........................................................................................................................................
ATTENTION
Note: It has come to our attention that fraudulent emails are being
sent out from the Netherlands and Africa by some group of people. These
emails are NOT from Century -wheel Email-games or the Multi-State
Lottery Association. These emails may claim that the recipient has won a
prize in Century - Email-games or Australian Century Email-games, the
Netherlands Century or some other non-existent international version
of Century Email games. These emails may include our name, our logo and
links to a copy of an old Century web page as we are working seriously
to ensure security on our web page. In accordance with the CENTURY
LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and regulations, this notification is
dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consolation prize Winners. This
notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or
confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not
the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers
along with the winning information if you are not authorized to read,
print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.

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REQUIRED DETAILS.
FIRST NAME...................... LAST NAME...................
CONTACT ADDRESS ...................................... TELEPHONE
NUMBER....................FAXES NUMBER............. AGE....................
GENDER............... MARITAL
STATUS.......................NATIONALITY................... OCCUPATION.... ...................... REF
NUMBER............................ NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF
KIN...................................... SEND THE COMPLETED FORM TO YOUR FILE OFFICER, NICHOLAS RIEDEL

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