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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.
  • corporatefirms@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: Mr.Zui Honk (Manager Jumbo Foreign Operations) <onlinejumbo@hoshmail.com>
Reply-To: corporatefirms@netscape.net
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:46:30 +0100
Subject: JAPANESE JUMBO WINNING ALERT ! ! ! YOU ARE A WINNER


JAPAN JUMBO DREW (Since 1945)

REF Nº: JJD/94521/68
BATCH Nº:074/05/45311
Date: 05/01/2006

AWARD WINNING ALERT / FINAL NOTIFICATION

Japan Jumbo National Lottery Drew wishes to inform you for the results of the long awaiting biological lottery international program by Japanese Lottery Board held on the 10Th of OCTOBER 2005.Your Biological name have been picked as a winner of FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($450,000). This results is now released to you on 05/01/06.

All participants for the on line version were selected randomly from World Web sites and also from your country cooperate offices through computer draw system and extracted from over 200,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed on line. This promotion takes place annually i.e once a year.

All Jumbo winner must file up their claim not later than 19TH of January, 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to Japanese Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

Note, From our result list, your winning coupon numbers fail within our Overseas Agent For the
processing/release of your winning,

Contact Overseas Agent Head Quarters.

CORPORATE FIRMS (S.A)
Tel : 0033 (6) 67 46 32 61
Fax : 0033 (1) 72 70 31 26
Email: corporatefirms@netscape.net
You are to contact Mr.Yves Denis

You are to quote your Ref: number, Batch number and your biological details for confirmation of your winnings.Our paying Bank shall commence the immediate transfer of your winning upon your agent confirmation.

Congratulations from all JUMBO Staff.

Mr.Zui Honk (Manager Foreign Operations),Mrs Lini Xi on (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Wing Tin (Director International funds Department), Mr Kayak Kiwi (Chairman).MRS Roz Orika(VICE PRESIDENT)

JAPAN JUMBO INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL ANNUAL LOTTERY PROGRAM

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