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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 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.
  • fedeincoy55@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: sema sema <sema@semasema.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:34:09 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: SEMA NATIONAL


SEMA NATIONAL
SPANISH HEAD OFFICE,
NO 4 CALLA HAVANA
MADRID , SPAIN .
28 /09 /2006


Dear Winner,

RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to announce you as third category winner of this years
annual Sema Award. All winning addresses were randomly selected
from a batch of 50,000,000.
International emails. Consequently, you
have therefore been approved for
a total pay out of 250,000.00euros
(Two hundred and fifty thousand euros) only.
The following particulars
were attached to your lotto payment order

(I) Lucky numbers:
7-46-67-11-89-09
(ii) Ticket number:
8954360213-6777
(iii) Batch Number:
JVHN/56/344/AZWI
(IV) Lottery Ref Number:
WRG6245-ES15678/06
(v) Serial Number: ES-567-3456-34
your security file
number is ES-098762341P.
Please contact the under listed claims
officer as soon as possible for the immediate
release of your winnings
Name:Mr. Carlos Cancan
CELIKEY Insurance Company
Email:fedeincoy55@netscape.net
TEL: +34- 692-967-211
After the acknowledgement
of the receipt of this winning notification
you would be sent a
lottery claims/Appraisal form to fill and submit to
our lawyer who.
Will carry out the legalisation of the transfer of your
winning. Do not forget to quote your reference number in all
correspondence.
Once again on behalf of all our staffs we are wishing
you big CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yours sincerely,
Maria belies
For Claims
Officer
The Lotto Company, Spain .

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