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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Global Trust Bank Plc" <globaltrustbank@globaltrustbankplc.org>
Reply-To: info@globaltrustbankplc.org
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:28:54 +0000
Subject: GLOBAL TRUST BANK PLC

                                                                

            GLOBAL TRUST BANK PLC

 

  

Attn:  Lottery Winner

 

 

 

This mail is from the Lottery officials paying bank (GLOBAL TRUST BANK PLC)

 

 

Congratulation once more on your lottery-winning prize, your information for the release of your prize has just been sent to the official paying bank of the lottery prize (GLOBAL TRUST BANK PLC )

 

 

 

1) LOTETRY-WINNING CERTIFICATE: You are to contact your lottery agent,(Mrs.Elizabeth Fowler) for your winning certificate,and on receipts of it, you are to send it to the bank,as this will prove you are the real and genuine winner of the lottery winning prize.

 

 

 

2)IDENTIFICATION: You are to send to the bank (GLOBAL TRUST BANK PLC ) a scan copy of your International Passport or Driver lincence,as this is also for identification and records purpose only.

 

 

As soon as this required infomations is received from you, your lottery winning prize will be ready for transfer,

 

 

 Congratulations once again,

 Mr. Edward Thompson

GLOBAL TRUST BANK PLC

+234 1 7217003

: : info@globaltrustbankplc.org
: : globaltrustbank@globaltrustbankplc.org

 

                                    

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