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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.
  • claimsco-ordinator@rock.com

Fraud email example:

From: "LUCKYSTAR PROMOTION" <luckystaronline_08@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:26:39 +0000
Subject: DEAR CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER!!

FROM: LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES PROMOTIONS

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNERS: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified by LUCKYSTAR

E-GAMES PROMOTIONS of Netherlands of your email lottery winning for

2006 LuckyStar Lotto-Wheel E-Games held on the Jan 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email Ref

number which was selected among the 45 Lucky consolation prize

winners. Your email ID identified with REF Number:

35149/337-5247/LMO was selected by Electronic Random selection

(ERS) with entries from 50,000 different email addresses. Your

email ID which was included among the 50,000 email addresses was

submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LMO
Batch Number: 2637/2312-LNI/2006
Ticket Number: 967666233
Lucky Amount:500, 000.00 (five hundred thousand Euros only)

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by

contacting the lottery claims Processing Officer with your winning

information provided above, please note that your consolation prize

winning has a one month duration to file claims, failure of which

your prize will be forfited.

Lottery Claims Officer:

Name: Peter Van Smith

Email:claimsco-ordinator@rock.com

Fax:: (31-847-520-740)

Congratulations Once again from all our staffs on your consolation

prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming

LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES.

Yours truly,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
(Lottery Coordinator)

All response should be mailed to:-claimsco-ordinator@rock.com

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