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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:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • lottodept_adb001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Linda Adams" <lindaadams44@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: notification22@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:22:55 +0000
Subject: Mrs.Linda Adams(Phd)

Dear Winner,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The prestigious Micrsoft and AOL has set out and sucessfully organised a
Sweepstakes marking the new year 2006 anniversary we rolled out over
$10,000.000.00 (Ten Million US Dollars) for our end of year Anniversary
Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a
wide range of web hosts which enjoy their patronage from Asia, America,
Europe, Africa etc.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised
email addresses to ticket numbers. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest
Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer
remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an
e-mail beta test.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number
008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the winning
numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you $500,000.00
(FiveHundred Thousand US Dollars) as one of the 20 jackpot winners in this
draw.

You have therefore won the entire winning sum of $500,000.00 (Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars) of which your winning falls under Africa's
zone. We are congratulating you for being one of the people selected.

These are your winning identification numbers:

Ticket number..................... 008795727498
Serial number..................... BTD/9080648302/06
Winning number...................14-21-25-39-40-47(20)
To begin your claims, kindly contact Our African payment Bank on
the address below,

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB)
Email: lottodept_adb001@yahoo.com
Contact Person: Dr. Ahmed Usman.
(Director of Foreign Remittance).

You are required to forward to him the following details for your winning
prize:

1.FULL NAME.....................
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.....................
3.DATE OF BIRTH.....................
4.OCCUPATION.....................
5.TELEPHONE NUMBER.....................
6.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY).....................
7.MARITAL STATUS.....................
8.Ticket number.....................
9.Serial number.....................
10.Winning number...................

Congratulations once more!!

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs.Linda Adams(Phd).
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

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