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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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

Fraud email example:

From: "Superenalotto Italia 2006" <awardinfoit@delphiforums.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:42:31 +0000
Subject: RE: NOTIFICA DEL PREMIO:CONGRATULAZIONI!!!


ITALIAN SUPERENALOTTO 2006
PREMIO DEPARTMNT,
EDIZIONE DEL INTERNET,
VIA GARIBALDI 35,
21000 ROME,
ITALY.

Dear Winner,

RE: NOTIFICA DEL PREMIO:CONGRATULAZIONI!!!

We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent ITALIANNATIONAL SUPERENALOTTO DRAWS held on the 7th August, 2006. Your e-mailaddress attached to ticket number: 27511465896-6410 with serial number4204-777 drew lucky numbers 5-21-23-34-61-72 which consequently won inthe 2nd category.


You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of€1,500,000,00 {One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros}.Note thatall participants in this lottery program have been selected randomlythrough a computer ballot system drawn from over 200,000 companies and30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and websites.

This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted andsponsored by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Italiaprime minister, FIAT, TAMOIL and other corporate organizations. This isto encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.
For security purposes and clarity we advise that you keep your winninginformation confidential until your claims have been processed and yourmoney remitted to you.

This program is strictly for international participants ONLY!

You have to send following details in order to fascilitate the processing and release of your winning.

Name: ...........................................
Nationality:....................................
Country of residence: ..................
Tel number: ..................................
Occupation: ..................................
Sex: ..............................................
Date Of Birth:................................
Winning E-mail Address:...............

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
You are requested to contact your claims officer Mrs .Rosa Amoratti , to assist you with the processing of your winnings andsubsequent payments.
Email address: rossa_amorretti@yahoo.com

All winnings must be claimed later than one month after the date of this notice.
Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,endeavor to quote your reference number and batch number in allcorrespondence.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our
promotional program.

NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE.

Sincerely yours,

MRS.AUDREY WILLIAMS
LOTTERY COORDINATOR.
______________________________________________________________________________
Tutta la frattura di riservatezza da parte dei vincitori risulterà aldisqualification. Questo E-mail messaggio (collegamenti compresi, sec'è ne) è destinato a uso di individuo o entità a che èindirizzato e può contenere le informazioni che sono privilegiate,riservato,confidenziale ed esentato dalla rilevazione. Se non siete ildestinatario progettato, siete comunicati che tutta ladiffusione,distribuzione o copiatura di questa comunicazione èproibita.

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