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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:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • agent_brooksmel@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "grenson alex" <grenson445@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:55:30 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATION...YOU HAVE......WON(THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2006 PROMO)

THE COCA COLA COMPANY

PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM
 
  

                                      

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE  NOTIFICATION
   
                                   

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held on  (1st Septemer, 2006)  by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email  was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £250,000.00{Two hundred and fifty thousand Great Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2006 PROMO.  

 However the results were released  and  your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
 
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) .

 This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public. 
 To begin the claim  processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary agent as stated below:

 

Mr BROOKS MEL

22 Garden Close, Stamford,

Lincs,PE9 2YP,London

United Kingdom

Email:agent_brooksmel@yahoo.co.uk

Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.

*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this PROMOTION.
 
Accept our hearty congratulations once again! 
 
Yours Faithfully,
Management.

              
                     

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