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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:

• 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.
  • susuan_yogesh@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "sandra peters" <sandrapeters01@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:36:24 -0600
Subject: Congratulations

EURO MILLION LOTTERY

3 RUE DU CANAL,

9336 NEUILLY PLAISANCE,

PARIS, FRANCE.



Dear Winner,



We are pleased to announce you as one of the 5 lucky winners in the Euro
Million Lotto draw held on the 1st of February 2006. All 5 winning addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your
email address emerged alongside 4 others as a winner in this year's Annual
Euro Million Lotto Draw.



Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total winnings of
€750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Five Thousand Euros) only. The following
particulars are attached to your Euro Million Lotto winning order:



(i) Winning Numbers: 10,11,55,44,66

(ii) Reference Number:3658749526

(iii) Email Batch Number:106895



Please contact the under listed officer as soon as possible for the
immediate advise on how to start the process of claiming your winnings:


Susan Yogesh



Promotions Manager,



EURO MILLION LOTTERY,



PARIS,FRANCE.



email:susuan_yogesh@yahoo.co.uk



N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;



1. Contact the promotons manager Immediately you receive this notification
for advise on how to begin the claims process.



2. Do please quote your Email Batch number, Reference and Winning numbers in
any correspondence with our designated agent.

Please include your telephone number(s) when contacting the promotions
manager.



Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,



CONGRATULATIONS.



Sincerely,

Sandra Peters.

Despatch officer,

EURO MILLION LOTTERY.



Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
Disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact the Promotions
Manager. Also you are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years
of age.



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The Euro Million Lotto Award is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, and Toshiba, Dell computers, Mackintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies. The Euro Million lotto
internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the
use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over
40 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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