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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.
  • benson_davidson201@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "EURO/AFRO/ASIA LOTTERY" <euroafroasia_lottery1@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 15:21:41 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

EURO/AFRO/ASIA LOTTERY PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
Address: 74 CRANBOUNE ROAD
CITY, STATE, ZIP: LIVERPOOL,
UNITED KINGDOM
REF NUMBER;OSL/653/029/03
BATCH NUMBER;AT-040-SB06-03

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

ATTENTION :WINNER,

We are pleased to inform you, that as a result of our recent EURO/AFRO/ASIA
STAKES LOTTERY draws held on 4th June 2005.Your Name and Email address
attached to ticket number 27522465896-532 with serial number 652-662 drew
lucky number 7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won 2nd category of our
stake lottery.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$2.5,000,000(UNITED STATES DOLLARS)Note: ALL participants in this lottery
program have been selected randomly through a
computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 Companies and 30,000,000
individual Names,email addresses from all search engines and web sites.

This promotional program takes place every year,and is promoted and
sponsored by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei,Bill Gates Of
Microsoft inc, Multi Choice,Echina site and
other corperate organisations.This promo is to encourage the use of the
internet and computers worldwide.

For security purpose and clarity,we advise that you keep your winnings
informations confidential until your claims have been processed and your
money remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claims and unwarranted abuse of this programe by some particitants.

We look forward to your active participation in our next year US$10 Million
slot. You are requested to contact our clearance officer below to assist you
with your winning and subsequent payments.All winnings must be claimed not
later than 10 working days after the date of this Notice.

Please note,in order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications remember
to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore,should there be any change of addresses do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our EURO STAKES
LOTTERY promotional program.

NOTE;YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 20 YEARS OF AGE.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATIONS CONTACT Email:benson_davidson201@yahoo.co.uk

Sincerely yours

MR.BENSON DAVIDSON
EURO/AFRO/ASIA LOTTERY

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