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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.
• 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.
  • +447040121172 (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.
  • tonygrant_claims@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: EURO MILLIONS <euromillions@winning.com>
Reply-To: tonygrant_claims@yahoo.com
Date: 1 Aug 2006 15:15:59 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




EURO MILLIONS

Watford, Head Office and Regional Centre Euro

Millions,

Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts,

WD18 9RN



REF NO: EML/ 56-TF-8890776

BATCH: 109/91300/EML





PRIZE AND AWARD NOTIFICATION



We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today

of winners of the MEGA JACKPO LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS

held on Friday 7th, July 2006.



Your company or your personal e-mail address, is

attached to ticket number 9901-0148-790-691, with

serial number 66109-17 drew the lucky numbers

990-11-815-37-10-83, and consequently won the lottery

in the 2nd category.



You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay

out of £420,000.00 (Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand

Pounds)in cash credited to file REF NO: EML/

56-TF-8890776. This is from total

prize money of £10,500,000.00 shared among the Twenty

five (25).



To claim your winning prize, Please contact

the claims department by email for processing and

remittance of your prize money to you.



The claims

officer contact email is:

email : tonygrant_claims@yahoo.com



Tel: +447040121172







NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and

complications, please remember to quote your reference

and batch numbers in all correspondences with this

office. Furthermore, should there be any change of

your address, do inform us as soon as possible.



You can view evidence that we pay our winners via the

below stated link:



http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13519248,00.html





Congratulations again from all our staff for being

part of our promotions program.



Sincerely,





Tony Grant (ESQ.)

Euro Millions.

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