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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: Dunlop <winnings@operamail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:54:49 -0400
Subject: ww-ss


Winning Inc / World-Wide-Sweep-Stakes (WW-SS).
8620 126 Avenue Northwest,
Edmonton, AB T5B1G9
Tel: 1-800-771-1140
Fax : 1-866- 257-2791
Email : admin@ww-ss.com

It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as a Category "C" winner of the International Lotto Canada.
You are entitled to a prize sum of $450,000.00 USD. Winning ticket number A/33-11970. Reference number for Your prize is IL/3-C5011970.
The annual unclaimed winnings of 10 million dollars has been recycled back to the general public to ensure fair Redistribution phone numbers and email addresses was selected from the database of phone records and email Directory across the globe. Consequently your email address was randomly picked out as a category "C" winner, From a total number of 250,000 names, phone numbers and email addresses drawn from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, after the computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, Only three winners emerged in this category and therefore are to receive payouts of $450,000.00 United States Dollars from the total winnings of $1,350,000.00 million Dollars for category "C" winners. Please keep your information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you In whatever manner you deem fit to claim it. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double Claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. To claim your prize please provides the following via this email address admin@ww-ss.com
1,Full Name
2,Contact Address
3, Phone Number

Please address all emails to Mr. Andrew Dunlop Email : (admin@ww-ss.com) World Wide-Sweep Stakes (WW-SS). to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference numbers in any Correspondence.
In your best interests, you must initiate contact within one week of receipt of this correspondence. we will be handling all financial matters with regards to claiming your prize. You are to keep all lotto information from the public, as we will not entertain cases of multiple claims processing or compromise the privacy and security of winners.

Thank you.
Andrew Dunlop
Coordinator Winning/ ww ss
Email : admin@ww-ss.com

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