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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.
  • phildkline@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: Myra Sheldon <ms@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: myrasheldon@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:51:52 -0400
Subject: pbl


CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE


POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2005,

Date: 19th-October-2005

Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE. Europe/America private international
e-games organizers and co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International,
officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 19th
October-2005 POWERBALL 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 $
500.000.00 (Five hundred thousand US Dollars) only. The POWERBALL 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.Phillip Kline who has been
assigned to assist you. Contact E-mail:phildkline@netscape.net Once
again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize
winning, we hope you will partake our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO
-wheel Email-games.
Regards,
Myra Sheldonl (Mrs),
(Group Coordinator)
........................................................................
........................................................ 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 Powerball -wheel Email-games or the Multi-State Lottery
Association. These emails may claim that the recipient has won a prize
in Powerball -wheel Email-games or Australian Powerball, the Netherlands
Powerball or some other non-existent international version of Powerball.
These emails may include our name, our logo and links to a copy of an
old Powerball web page as we are working seriously to ensure security on
our web page. In accordance with the POWERBALL 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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------

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, PHILLIP KLINE

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