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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447024073673 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • fiddavidmorret@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Patricia Zech <send2zech@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:48:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: EMAIL: fiddavidmorret@netscape.net irish lotto


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The Irish Lottery P O Box 1010 11 G Lower Dorset Street, Dublin 1, Ireland (Customer Services) http://www.irishlotto.net Ref: UK/9420X2/68 Batch: 074/05/ZY369 WINNING NOTIFICATION: We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the IRISH LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program held on wednesday 15th of February, 2006. It is now available for claims and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 04, 11, 16, 19, 24, 42, (bonus no.09), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1.35 Million (One million, three hundred and fifty thousand, pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total
cash prize of 4,419,864 shared amongst the (2)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion which is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, and a conglomeration of other international IT companies takes place weekly and is organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers in more than 150 countries worldwide. To begin your lottery claim, please contact our fiduciary agent below that have been appointed for the processing of your claim with the email address below: CONTACT NAME: David Morret Tel: +44 702 407 3673 EMAIL: fiddavidmorret@netscape.net You are also advised to provide him with the
under listed information as soon as possible: 1. Name in full.............. 2. Address................... 3. Nationality............... 4. Age....................... 5. Occupation................ 6. Phone/Fax................. You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown:- http://www.irishlotto.net for more information. Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE IRISH LOTTERY. Yours faithfully, Susan Armstrong (Mrs) Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY Sweepstakes International Program. ============================================================================ NOTE: We advice that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. Please be warned!!!



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