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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "lottery winners international e-mail programs"
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "INTERNATIONAL (INC:)USA" <globalinternational@web2mail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:41:49 +1000
Subject: ATTN: NOTIFICATION; AS A LUCKY WINNER

GLOBAL MILLIONS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.(INC.)
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REFERENCE: 67/80/IPD
BATCH: EGGS-541-623-782:

RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE

Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the GLOBAL millions Lottery
Winners International E-mail programs held on the 25TH of August and result
where release on the 6TH of november 2006. Your E-mail address attached to
ticket number 653-908-321-675 with serial main number 345-790-241-671 drew
lucky star numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which consequently won in the 2ND
category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $
1.000.000.00 Dollars.(One Million Dollars)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims has been processed and your award
remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All
participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over
100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all
over the world.
This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Global Lottery Inetrnational
board in order to enhance and promote the use of Internet Explorer Users and
Microsoft-wares around the globe. This promotional program takes place once
in three years. We hope with part of your winning price, you will take part
in our new year 50 millions Global International lottery.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiducial agent.
(CLAIM AGENT)
UNI Finance & Security Company
MIAMI-FLORIDA U.S.A.
USA.
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than two weeks, after this
date, all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please
remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all
correspondence.


Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified

Sincerely yours,
Mrs Jose Young
Lottery Coordinator.

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