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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +447031908650 (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.
  • jeffgordon55@excite.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: powerball20@nonomail.com
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:24:15 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 2:09:11 +0200

From: <powerball20@nonomail.com>
Message-ID: <8a1ac0ce589d2c5efb2c0a5b155f2573@localhost>

X-Sender: powerball20@nonomail.com

User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-20051021

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



POWERBALL LOTTO. Bv

POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2006,



Date 31th-Mar-2006

Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP

Dear Consultation Prize Winner,



RE: CONSULTATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE

Europe/ America private international e-games organizers and

co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to

your notice of the final draw result of the 29th-Mar-2006 POWERBALL

LOTTO -wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate

office complex in The UNITED KINGDOM.



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 ncourage the use of Internet for academic and business

pursuits. It 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. Our DUE PROCESS

UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide

additional information and processes for the claims of your

consultation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please

contact the DPU Information Officer Mr.Jeff Gordon who has been

assigned to assist you.

Contact E-mail: jeffgordon55@excite.co.uk

TEL: +447031908650

TEL: +447031942426



Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation

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

LOTTO -wheel Email-games.

Regards

Mrs FRANCESCA BELKER

(Group Coordinator)

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