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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.
  • info_2006lotteryverification@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Teresa Eaton <teresa@eatonteresa4.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:31:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: WINNIG NOTIFICATION:CONGRATULATION!! (CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT)


FREELOTTO INTERNATIONAL
CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPRTMENT
***********************************
82 VICTORIA STREET, VICTORIA
LONDON SW1 UNITED KINGDOM
***********************************
Ref: FRL0/941OWI/02
Batch: 12/25/0034
***********************************
WINNIG NOTIFICATION

Dear Mr/Mrs/Sir/Madam:

We happily announce to you the draw of the Freelotto
International programs held on the 30th September, 2006 in
London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number
:564 75600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the
lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 5th category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
$ 1,000,000 USD (One Million United State Dollars) in cash
credited to file FRLO/9080118308/02/BST.This is from a total
cash prize of $10.000,000 USD (Ten Million United State Dollars)
shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this
category.

All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide Web'
site through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 companies.For security reasons, you are advised to
keep your winning information confidential till your claims is
processed and money remitted to you in whatever manner you
deem fit to claim your prize. This is a part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program by some unscrupulous elements.

Note that all claims process and clearance procedures must
be duly completed early to avoid impersonation arising to
the issue of double claim. To avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, you are advised to keep this notice to yourself
because we shall not be responsible for any divert of funds as
a result of you disclosing your lottery award details,I hereby
advice you to report to:info_2006lotteryverification@yahoo.co.uk
within 24hours of reading this mail.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of
this program.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Teresa Eaton
FreeLotto Coordinator

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