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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 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.
  • +447024072783 (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.
  • freeclaim_agent2006@yahoo.com.hk

Fraud email example:

From: "Fj Walter" <mr_walterson_fj@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:13:08 +0000
Subject: THIS MASSAGE NEEDS AN URGENT REPLY

FREE AWARD DEPT.
16 Broad Street,
Woolich,
United Kingdom.
London.
www.freelotto.com

                                   WINNING NOTIFICATION

This is to notify you of the release of the lottery winning, held on
19th of Feb 2006. Due to the mix up of numbers, the results were
released on the 10th of March, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 703218509 under agent ID: 18 and lucky ball number 11,13,26,34,44,48,02 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been qualified for a lump sum payout of 4,000,000.00

(Four Million Pounds Sterling) in cash drawn in your favor, as the soul
beneficiary and covered with the HIGHEST LEVEL OF INSURANCE POLICY
called the IRREVOCABLE GURANTY BOUND.  That makes the prize NONDEDUCTABLE

Due to mix up of some names and winning number, we ask that you keep
your winning information with confidentiality until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to you, in your perspective country.
Because this is part of our new security protocol to avoid double
claiming and forgery of winners identity in this program by some unscrupulous  elements.

You are to be rest assured on how you are a winner, when you never
played any. Is because all participants were selected through our Microsoft
computer ballot draw system. And as far as you use the Internet. Microsoft we
help us extracted over 20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000 individual email
addresses and names from all over the world. To begin your lottery claim, please
contact your judiciary agent below that has been appointed for the processing
of your claim with the email address below:

Name: CONTACT NAME: Mr. Williams Wilcox
 EMAIL: freeclaim_agent2006@yahoo.com.hk
Telephone Number: +44-702-4072-783

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your WINNING NUMBER in all correspondence.

Warning: All winners are to claim their winning prize in not later than
2 weeks (14 days) of their winning notification. Because we have to be
fast in starting another season this New Year and we want to use this
opportunity to give 4,000,000.00 as a New Year gift. And you will be glad indeed.

And also I want to inform you that we are not like other lottery
company that wants to steal your hard earn money to use it for our self fish
reasons Because this lottery program is open for investigation because we are a 100% RISK FREE program, so fear nothing.

 Note: That you are to respond to all the necessary procedure involved
In collecting your winning prize because 4,000,000.00 is not a joke and
nobody will like to jeopardize with such an amount. And if you are not
interested in claiming your prize. You are advised to draft this office
Your REFUSAL LETTER indicating strictly that you are not interested in
your winning prize and it should be used for the next stack. And I promise
you will never hear from me again.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent
as soon as possible.
 The Free Award lottery company is proudly sponsored by an Oil company.

Located in Saudi Arabia and also the Free Award, Internet draw is held
twice in a year and it is organized, because we want to encourage the use of Internet round the Globe and 4,000,000.00 Pounds is like a New Year gift to our lucky winners. So I will like to congratulate you because you will have the Pleasure to thank God, for what you have achieved something great at the Beginning of 2006.

And we are proud to say that over 150 Million Pounds Sterling is won
annually in More than 150 countries worldwide.

Thank you once more for your participating with us once more.

Your Sincerely,
Mr., George Peterson,
Public Relations Officer

 

 

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