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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Tina williams" <abatogrino004@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: trustlink003@walla.com
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:26:55 +0200
Subject: URGENT INFORMATION



We are pleased to inform you of the result of Email Lottery promotion held
on the 16th JANUARY ,2004 and that you were one of the five lucky winners and your
e-mail address attached to ticket number 4208-6234 with serial number 8880-278 drew lucky
numbers 1-03-66-9 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore
been approved for a lump sum pay of $1,000,000.00(ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
over 25,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from All
over the world. we hope that with part of your winning you will take part in our next
year TEN MILLION USD International Lottery.

Please to file in for your claims, contact our fiducial agent:

MR MARVIN KING
Email:trustlink003@walla.com
TELE:0039.3396463456

Please do remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 25th
DECEMBER,2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,If you wish to file
in for your claims,you are therefore requested to qoute the following claims
requirements.

1. Reference,Batch ,Serial and Lucky Numbers.
2. Your Full Names and Adress
3. Tel and Fax Numbers.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Sincerely yours,

Mrs Tina williams

Lottery Coordinator

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