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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.
  • llsteven123@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: lotto agent <shaun_m_005@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:43:06 +0100 (BST)
Subject: EUROMILLIONES LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL


EUROMILLIONES LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30, LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND .


ATTN: Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
Euromilliones lottery international draw held yesterday . All 10
winning
addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international
emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as category 2
winners
in this year's Annual Euromilliones lottery Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
£1,000,000.00 pounds (one million pounds) only. The following
particulars
are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the under listed claims officer (agent) via email or
phone
numbers.

DR.LLOYD STEVEN.
Chief financial Director
EUROMILLIONES LOTTERY INT'L
Phone Number;27 73 1646412
Email Adress;llsteven123@yahoo.co.uk


N.B: Steps to claim your prize

1. Winners must immediately pay a non-deductible amount of £ 535.00
pounds
only as fee before claiming their prize for the processing and handling
of
award. Note that your prize have been insured to the real value of
£1,000
000.00 pounds hence no deduction can be done.

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

3. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where
they
want their prize paid or sent.

4. Winners must send their names, address, telephone and fax number and
means of
identification (international passport or drivers’ license) to claim
officer
to process immediate payment of their prize.

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are
claimed
to
avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Mr SHAUN MEREH
Promotions Manager
EUROMILLION LOTTERY INT'L.





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