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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!
• 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.
  • mrs_leonel@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: chrpromo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:29:10 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?1=2E5=24=20MILLIOM=20PROMO=20=28WINNER=29?=

AV 5 CASTILLA MADRID SPAIN
FROM:CHEERFULGATE AWARD DEPT.
REF: SUN/2010-968091/03
BATCH: 54/010/IPD
DATE:7/7/2006
RE: EMAIL WINNING CONFIRMATION NOTICE
We are glad to inform you that your E-mail address
appearsas the confirmed Winner of our last
CHEERFULGATE email lottery
program held on the 24th Of June 2006.Your e-mail
address attached to
ticket number
20675543256-786 with Serial number 3765-75 drew lucky
numbers
7-12-18-24-32-45, which Consequently won in the 2nd
category, you
have therefore been approved For a lump sum payment of
One Million
One hundred thousand united state
dollars(US$1.5,000.000).
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
This promotional program takes place every year. All
participants were selected through a computer ballot
system dra! wn
from over 100,000 companies and 50,000, 000 individual
email
addresses and names from all over the world.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your reference number and
batch numbers in
all correspondence.We ask that you keep your winning
information
confidential until your claims has been processed and
your money
remitted to you. Remember allwinnings must be claimed
not later than
19th of June
2006.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be included
in the next stake.
To file for your claim or for further details, please
contact our agent Mrs. Michelle Leonel at and fill the form as well.
Mrs_leonel@myway.com
YOU ARE ADVICE TO FILL THE BELOW,AND CONTACT OUR CLAIM AGET FOR FURTHER
CLAIM.
1,YOUR FULL NAME................................................
2,YOUR SEX:..................
3,YOUR ADDRESS:..............................................
4,COUNTRY.............................................................
5,STATE----------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME AND ADDRESS WHERE YOU WANT YOUR CHECK TO BE
POSTED.............................
6,.YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER:...................................
7,.YOUR FAX NUMBER:..........................................
8,.YOUR OCCUPATION:.......................................
9,.YOUR COMPANY'S NAME:...............................
10,YOUR AGE:...............
11,.YOUR REF NUMBER:.....................
Provide the following immediately so we can start processing your
payment.
Once again congratulations.You are given one week more to claim your
winning.
In respect of our commitment towards helping the less
previledge, we ask that you voluntarily contribute 1%
of
your Global winnings to any charity organization you
desire
at your convinience.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff.
Mr. John Wood
Global Winning co-ordinator

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