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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:

• 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.
  • +66835619209 (Thailand, probably a mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "The management of Vodafone Fifa world cup lottery promotion" <vodafone_fifa@vodafone.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: infocenter@homs.cc
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:27:42 -0800
Subject: Please read this information well.

VODAFONE ONLINE PROMO-INTERNATIONAL
In conjunction with the National Organizing committee of the 2006 FIFA World cup.,FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 Organisationskomitee Deutschland Koniginstrade 23,258969 Munchen,Monday 11th December 2006 02:57:01-0800

From; The Desk of the promotions Manager,
VODAFONE FIFA WORLD CUP ONLINE-PROMO INTERNATIONAL
Customer service and Logistics Department.
www.store.vodafone.com.au
Reference N0: FL/668530092
Batch N0:452006/14/FIFA06/FL
Winners' Identity N0: MM-52047

Dear winner,
We the entire board and management of VODAFONE ONLINE-PROMO INTERNATIONAL in conjunction with the National organizing committee of the 2006 FIFA WORLD CUP wishes to congratulate you as one of the selected lucky winner of the e-mail address ballot lottery international program held on the 28th of September 2006 in Munich (Germany) after the FIFA ORGANIZED WORLD CUP.

This Vodafone promotion is organized by the host country in collaboration with Football world body"FIFA"Funds for the draw were contributed by the major sponsors of the game which includes Adidas,Hyundai,Fuji,Film,Mastercard,Gillette,Coca-Cola,Continental,Toshiba, McDonalds and a host of others.

Your lucky winning numbers falls within our Asia booklet representative office as indicated in the draw system, in view of this, your (us$250,000,00 )Two hundred and fifty thousand-united-states-dollars will be release to you by our payment office in Asia.

Approximately (80) lucky winners including you today (Monday 11th December 2006) had been notified and may now contact our agents in all the designated regions for the immediate release of their cash prize award.

Our agents has been apportioned among six geographic regions, all lucky selected winner's will need to act on their claims application quickly before the expiration of the claim date-line which is on the 31st of December 2006.

Contact our Asia /pacific agent via this contact details:
Name: Mr. Fredrick Anderson.
Office address: Indra Tower , Suite 105 , 75/6 Wireless Road Panthumwan-Bangkok-Thailand.
Tel: +66-83561-9209 +66-84726 9536
Fax: +66-2251 9977
Email: mapp_services@homs.cc
Alternative Email: infocenter@homs.cc

Due to mix up of some names and numbers, we ask that you keep your winning information's confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you, this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program or your cash prize award winnings will be void, please be warned.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS!!

ADVANCE QUESTION!
1. How was I selected as one of the lucky winner of the lottery program?
Your registered e-mail address was extracted alongside 6.3million other e-mail addresses through computer random extraction from world wide registered web-sites, during the 33-days extraction period that ran from 12.00 AM on JULY 20 2006, until midnight, AUGUST, 22 2006, you are selected as one of the lucky winner's through computer draw system draw system conducted by our team of professionals.

The lottery result was released on the 20th November 2006 and we are sending the winning notification directly to you through the lucky selected winning e-mail address.

BASIC QUESTION!
2. How can I make the claim of my cash prize award?
Your cash prize award will be remitted to you as soon as you contact our Asia /pacific agent because your winning details and personal information's has been forwarded to them.

ANY SELECTED LUCKY PERSON BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/HER CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS.

Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Monica Smith.
International relations officer.

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