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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 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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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 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.
  • grancanarias@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • samuelcole2000@zwallet.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS.MONICA LOPEZ" <grancanarias@excite.com>
Reply-To: samuelcole2000@zwallet.com
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:26:31 +0200
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION,FINAL NOTICE.


LOTERIA DE GRAN CANARIAS
C/CORDORA NO 21 PLANTA 2-A
28204 MADRID SPAIN
E-MAIL:grancanarias@excite.com
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT

AWARD NOTIFICATION,FINAL NOTICE.
Dear Stake Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of 15th March. 2006 of your selection as one of the five winners of the promotional Gran Canarias Sweepstakes Lottery Spain held recently as part of our EXPERIMENTAL BONANZA. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 415,960.00 Euros (Four hundred and Fifteen Thousand.Nine Hundred and Sixty Euros only) in cash credited to file REF NO.TCL/2551256003/08.
We,Gran Canarias is by this program,Launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever-growing number of participants in our various lottery programs. With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.

After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails all participants were selected through a computer ballot system from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA and South America as part our International Pr
omotions Program, which was conducted in view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry Worldwide and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize.To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the transfer of your prize is to be handled by our Prize Transfer agents.

You are to contact our agents by email within a week of receiving this notice. Please find full contact details below:

MR.SAMUEL DAVID COLE.,
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
UNIPLEX CANARIAS S.A
TEL:+34- 677715512

EMAIL:samuelcole2000@zwallet.com

Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below:
Ref No: TCL/2551256003/08
Batch No:14/0017/IPD
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-006
Grand Draw No: 12099

Also send your Name,Email Address,Contact Address,Telephone Number and Country of Residence when replying your Claims Agent. Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than a week of receiving this notification. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to Quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with your agent.
Furthermore you are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information and numbers from the public in line with our company security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our Promotions program.

Yours Sincerely,

MRS.MONICA LOPEZ
VICE PRESIDENT,
LOTERIA DE GRAN CANARIAS.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
Disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claim agent

Anti-fraud resources:

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