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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • pwballgamming@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • claimsagent_powerball@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Williams Anita <pwballgamming@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 04:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOU ARE A WINNER ( CLAIM YOUR PRIZE)


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: pwballgamming@yahoo.com







POWERBALL LOTTO. Bv

POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel

E-game

2006,

Date:30th-May-2006

Ref Nr:?PBL/CN/6654/CP

Dear Consultation Prize Winner,


RE: CONSULATION 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 28th April-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

seekto encourage 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 $1,000,000.00(one million united

state 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 consoLation prize.


For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information

Officer Mr.Moris Kolecte who has been assigned to assist you.

Contact Moris Kolecte

E-mail: claimsagent_powerball@yahoo.com.hk

Tel:+44 794 454 5394


Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation

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

-wheel-Email-games.


Regards

Mrs Anita Williams.

(Group Coordinator)





- Williams Anita

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