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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348036608838 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • cliam_dept@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: POWERBALL LOTTERY <powerballlottery@yahoo.com.br>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:01:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: You Have Won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


POWERBALL LOTTORY

Date:Febuary,6th,2006
Ref Number: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

CONSULTATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE



Europe/ South America/ North America/ Asia and Africa private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTORY Group International, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 29st January-2006 POWERBALL LOTTORY -wheel E-game.

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. Its 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 consultation 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 consultation cash prize of US $ 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only. The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board. Your prize will be pay by the Official Payment Agency Board in Nigeria.

You have to contact the Official Payment Agency Board Mr James Scott where the money is been deposited right now, so that you can recieve your winning prize; Contact him right now, Email: cliam_dept@yahoo.com, Telephone Number: +2348036608838


Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consoltation prize winning, we hope you will partake our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTORY -wheel Email-games.

Regards,
Mrs Faith Williams.
(Group Coordinator)

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