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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.
  • +34686417049 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • yoanisalex@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: pamela bricks <pamela@pamelabricks4.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:32:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: EASY DRAW LOTTO / PREMETIVA LOTERAI


EASY DRAW LOTTO / PREMETIVA LOTERAI
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMM
Date: 17th October, 2006
Ref Nr: MSTL/CN/982/YT
Batch Number: 26/363/UTR.
Serial Number :257-42-86
Coupon No. MSTL-146/978/322/687
Dear Email Bearer,
CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!
Europe/America private international e-games organizers and Co-sponsors, EASY DRAW / PREMITIVA LOTERAI, officially bring to your notice the final draw result of September-2006 EASY DRAW LOTTERY / PREMITIVA /LOTERAI ,wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in Spain.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give outprizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music, theater, art and literature projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners.
Your email address identified with Coupon No. MSTL-146/978/322/687 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.
You have won a consolation cash prize of 700,000.00 (Seven Hundred thousand Euros) only. The EASY DRAW LOTTERY Group have approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remitted directly to you officially by premium security company.
OUR DUE PROCESSING UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consolation prize.
For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer Mr,Alex Yoanis who has been assigned to assist you, see Contact information below.
NAME: Mr. Alex Yoanis
E-mail: yoanisalex@excite.com
Company:Premium Security Company (claims department)
Tel: +34-686-417-049
You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Full Names:
Occupation
Phone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
Serial Number:
coupon Number:
Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming subsequent programm email-games.
Best Regards,
Mrs.Pamela Bricks
(Group Coordinator)
NB: In accordance with the EASY DRAW LOTTERY E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary,privileged and confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address is attached to the lucky numbers along with the winning information à you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.

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