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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024072609 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • david_nelson202@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: becky_owen@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:32:51 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATION=21=20=2E=2E=2E=2EYOU=20WON?=


 FROM:THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
 EUROPEAN PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
 REF:PL2/209318/09
 BATCH:18/103/HME.
 TEL: +44-702-407-2609
 FAX: +44-707-516-7655
                        BONANZA 2006!!!

 This is to Notify you of the release of the lottery
 winning, held on the 29th of May 2006.
 Due to the mix up of numbers, the results were
 released on the 18th of May, 2006. Your e-mail
 address attached to ticket number: 7-1-8-36-4-22
 under agent ID: 18 and lucky ball number 7363789,which
 subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category
 You have therefore been qualified for a lump sum
 payout of 860,641.28 Great British Pounds(GBP) which
 amounts to $1,500,000.00 (One Million,Five Hundred
 Thousand United States DOLLARS) in cash, drawn in
 your favor, as the soul beneficiary and covered with the
 highest level of Insurance policy called the
 IRREVOCABLE GUARANTEE OF PAYMENT BOND.
 
Due to mix up of some names and winning number, we
 ask that you keep your winning information confidential
 until you claim has been processed and your money
 remitted to you, in your perspective country. Because this is
 part of our new security protocol to avoid double
 claiming and forgery of winners identity in this
 program by some unscrupulous persons.
 
This lottery was organized by an association of
 software manufacturers who came together from all
 parts of europe including Great Britain,Spain,The
 Netherlands and Belgium which are the major host
 countries.All participants were selected through our
 Microsoft computer ballot draw system, were we
 extracted over 20,000.00 companies
 and 3,000,000 individual email addresses and names
 from all over the world.

 To begin your lottery claim, please contact your
 Fudiciary agent below that has been appointed for the
 processing of your claim with the email address
 below:
 
 Mr.David Nelson
 TEL: +44 702 407 2609
 FAX: +44 707 516 7655
 EMAIL:david_nelson202@yahoo.com
 
 Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
 complications please remember to quote your WINNING
 NUMBER in all correspondence.
 Warning: All winners are to claim their winning prize
 in not later than 1 week (7 days) of their winning
 notification.
 Winners are to contacts us to confirm thier winning
 through  the phone number displayed before sending an
 email.This is done to aviod forgery  and
 impersonation of winners information and ticket number.
 This is also to inform winners that there are so many
 email letter all over the internet faking to be real,
 
so be warrned!!!

  Note: That you are to respond to all the necessary
 procedure involved in collecting your prize ,and if
 you are not interested in claiming your prize,you are
 advised to draft this office your REFUSAL LETTER
 indicating that you are not interested in your
 winning prize and it should be used for the next stake.
 Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
 inform our agent as soon as possible.
 The online promotion lottery company is proudly
 sponsored by a group of succesfull bussiness men all
 over the world.
 Internet draw is held once in a year and it is
 organized, because we want to encourage the use of
 Internet around the globe and we are beginning this
 year with this $1,500,000.00 as it is like a WELCOME
 TO 2006.
 And we are proud to say that over 50 Million DOLLARS
 are won annually in more than 150 countries
 worldwide.
 
We wish you a hearthy congratulation once again.
 
Your Sincerely,
 Mrs.Becky Owen
 For Management
 NOTE: ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY  ON THE PART OF
 ANY WINNER WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION!
 ====================================================

 OUR Executives:
 Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager
 Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden
 (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James
 Williams (Director International Credit Department),
 Mrs. Lonni K Anderson (Legal Representative), Mrs.
 Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen
 Boer (Chairman), Mr. Chris Moritz(International
 Relation Officer).

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