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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: Julius Yong <yong_julius@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:03:35 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON


ATTENTION: WINNER!
ONLINE PROMOTIONS
STAATSLOTTERY (HEADQUARTERS)
The China Staatsloterij
Chaoyang 2055
2514 HU Den Liu
People Republic Of China

FROM: STAATSLOTTERY CH
ATTENTION: WINNER!
TICKET NUMBER: 2752246831
SERIAL NUMBER: 652-66283
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040SB06-03

AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of release of the results for THE CHINA ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM held on the 22th of June 2006.You were entered as dependent clients with; Reference Serial Number: 652-66283 and Batch number AT-040SB06-03.

Your email address attached to the ticket number: 2752246896 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category, in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of $ 500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credited to file reference number: IPL/4249859609/WP1. This is from a total cash prize of Twelve million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars shared among the ten international winners in first categories. Congratulations!
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world, as part of our international promotion program.

Due to mix up of some names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you.
This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators. You are to contact our accredited agent for your claim.

Name: Mr. Lee Chao
E-mail: pro_office@xpemail.com
Processing Officer

He is the agent responsible for the processing and transfer of your winnings.
YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS W-346-H67/C4 (Personal infomation). Remember, your winning must be claimed not later than 30th July, 2006.
You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your claims and certificate which will facilitate the release of your winnings.

1. Full Names:……………………………………………………………
2. Residential Address:……………………………………….............
3. Phone Number:……………………………………………..............
4. Fax Number:………………………………………………...............
5. Occupation:………………………………………………….............
6. Sex:…………………………………………………………...............
7. Age:……………………………………………………………...........
8. Nationality:……………………………………………………..........
9.Present Country:……………………………………………..

A scanned identification of your self sent via email. You are advice to forward these information’s as soon as possible to enable us attend to your file. Once again, Congratulations.

Yours Sincerely,
M.Yong Julius
International online lottery

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL NOT CORRESPOND WITH YOU ON THIE E-MAIL ADDRESS,YOU MUST FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION AS STATED ABOVE


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