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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:
  • "claim agent" (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 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.
  • agentkevingreen@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • postmaster_onlinemegamill@virgilio.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MEGA MILLION LOTTERY <onlinemegamill@o2.pl>
Reply-To: onlinemegamill@wanadoo.es
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:20:09 +0200
Subject: Contact Your agent for you prize money


THE ONLINE MEGA MILLION AWARD RESULT NOTIFICATION.
FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT MEGAMILLION
LOTTERY BOARD. CORSO TURATI 25 , 20100 MILANO , ITALY.
REF. NUMBER: OMM / IT / 2563214002 / 06
WINNER BATCH NUMBER: ITL/ 00214/ 224510/OMM
DATE: 5th/AUGUST/2006.
Attn : Lucky Winner ,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Online Mega Million Lottery E-mail award program held on the 5th August, 2006.
Your E-mail address attached to ticket number 1285-0005 with Serial number 062-55842, which drew the lucky numbers of 04- 75 - 67 - 31 -05- 21 , which consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category. You are therefore approved for a lump sum payout of SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY ( US$ 750,000 .00 ) accredited to file reference number: OMM / IT / 2563214002 / 06 , This is from a total cash prize of TWELVE MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY ( US$ 12, 750 , 000.00 ) Shared among the Seventeen ( 17 )international winners in this category.
!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names/programme abuse, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.
We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our end of year 50 millions Euro International lottery.
To file for your claim, please contact your Claim agent : Kevin Green with the following information on this e-mail : agentkevingreen@yahoo.it , kevingreen@dixinet.com
1. FULL NAMES:
2. ADDRESS:
3. SEX:
4. AGE:
5. MARITAL STATUS:
6. OCCUPATION:
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8. TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS :
9. LUCKY WINNING NUMBER:
10. REF / BATCH NUMBER:
11. AMOUNT WON:
12. IDENTIFICATION SCAN COPY EITHER INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVING LICENCE / NATIONAL ID CARD.
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Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 09 - 10 - 2006.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake .
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of e-mail address do inform your agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
Yours in Service,
Antonio Lo Greco
(Lottery Co-ordinator)
For: Online MegaMillion Program.
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This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Gaming Control Board immediately by e-mail at postmaster_onlinemegamill@virgilio.it and destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments

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