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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "cashier's check" (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: Julia Harrison <luckywinners@walla.com>
Reply-To: royar@walla.com
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:28:01 +0100
Subject: 2006 Winner


THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB,
YEAR 2006.

ATTENTION WINNER:
The management of Liverpool football club is glad to announce to
the world THEIR RECENT VICTORY AND DEVELOPEMENT, the giving away
of the sum of TWENTY MILLION UNITED KINGDOM POUNDS to 40 lucky
email addresses all over the world. This promotion is in
appreciation of our International Support in the European Champions
League Finals in Turkey and the correspondent capital profit in the
stock market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings.
It is also to Mark the Club's over 100 years of co-operate existence.
Please be informed that all winners in this program have been
selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over
500,000 companies and individual e-mail addresses database.
Your email address happened to be one of the lucky winners of five
hundred thousand pounds among the forty email addresses chosen. For
all our international winners the value of the amount comes to
($917,956.00 USD) Nine Hundred and Seventeen thousand, Nine hundred
and fifty-six United States Dollars.
In other to claim your £500,000.00 prize, you will have to fill
the form below for verification and then you will be inform on how
your Cashier's Check for £500,000.00 has already been deposited
with your email contact.
*FULL NAMES..............................
*ADDRESS.................................
*AGE.....................................
*SEX.....................................
*OCCUPATION..............................
*STATE/REGION............................
*COUNTRY.................................
*TEL.....................................
Please you are advised to complete the form and send back to us for
prompt collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are
below 18 years of age.
Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification. This E-mail message (including
attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or
Entity to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is
privileged, proprietary, confidential and exempted from disclosure.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any
dissemination, distribution or copying of this Communication is
strictly prohibited.
Sincerely,
Mrs.julia harrison
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent
Mr. John White
EMAIL: royar@walla.com

ONCE AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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