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

Fraud email example:

From: EURO MILLIONS <euromillionsdept@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:14:27 +0100
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?YOU WON -=A31,228,704.80 ?=

 

 

Euro Millions
Euro Millions are Affiliate of Italy (IT).
http://www.virtualworlddirect.com/vwdguest/eu_results.asp

Dear Cash Winner,

CONGRATULATIONS:YOU WON -£1,228,704.80

We are pleased to inform you of the result of Euro Millions, which was held on 20th,October,2006.Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 10 1934 45 47 (03-06 ), with Prize Number (match 1):106000007 drew a prize of£1,228,704.80 per winner. This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Categoryof the Sweepstake.

You will receive the sum of £1,228,704.80 perwinner from our authorized bank. Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes,including the time limited placed on the payment of your prize:£1,228,704.80, we advice that you keep all information about this prize confidential until your funds: £1,228,704.80 have been delivered/transferred to you by our bank.

You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with the release of your funds to your person.This program has been abused severally in past mainly in RUSSIA & NETHERLANDS, so we are doing our best tO forestall further occurrence of false claims and internet Fraud, this advice complies with the Anti-Fraud section 2,sub section (iv) of the procedural manual ofthe funds disbursement agreement existing between the Lottery Board andthe ITALIAN Government.

This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 8,000 spectators. Your e-mail address attached toe-ticket number 10 19 34 45 47 (03-06 ) was selected and; it came out first by an e-ballot draw from over 250,000 e-mail addresses (personal and corporate e-mail addresses).

This program is sponsored by CFI to compensate faithful Internet suffers around the globe.
Congratulations for becoming one of the few lucky winners. In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim,You are requested to contact your claims clearance officer MR. KEANE BROKLYN, to assist you with the processing of your winnings and subsequent payments of your £1,228,704.80 prize,you will have to contact our agent for further verification andauthenticity of your claims as the sole beneficiary by providing the details below:

MR. KEANE BROKLYN
EMAIL: claimsdept@execs.com

NAME:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NUMBER:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:

Yours Faithfully,
MR LESLEY KENNETH
Coordinator:Euro Millions.

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