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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 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.
  • +447011120300 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • info_megajackpot@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Anthony Vincent" <anthgony-vin53cdent@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:48:59 -0800
Subject: AWARD WINNER STRIKERMILLION LOTTERY 2006/PDV

STRIKER- MILLION PROMOTION
Monmouth House 40 Artillery Lane,London,E1 7LS



Dear Winner,



RE: PRIZE NOTIFICATION.



We are pleased to inform you of the result of the online cyber lotto
Draws of the striker million lotto held on the 7th of December 2006.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were
sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as
one of ten winners in the category "A" with the following particulars:



(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-54-67-11
(ii) Email code number: sw/754/22/76
(iii) Lotto ref number: sw/09622UK



Hence you are eligible for the prize of One Million Pound Sterling.
Please contact the under listed Fiduciary Coordinator as soon as
possible for processing of your claim:


Mr Colen Mark
PDV Ltd.
Email: info_megajackpot@hotmail.com
Tel:+44-701-112-0300
Fax:+44-720-228-6747

Furnish them with the following:

1. Full names.
2. Residential address.
3. Phone number.
4. Nationality.
5. Age.
6. Sex.
7. Occupation.

You are also required to choose the mode in which you want to collect your
funds:

i. Travel down to personally collect it.

ii. Through our European agent, this are for those who are unable to travel
due to one reason or the other.

When making your claims quote your email code number in the subject of
your email.You are required to keep this award to yourself, especially your
Particulars, until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to
you.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,


CONGRATULATIONS!!!



Sincerely,

Anthony Vincent
Promotion Manager
STRIKER MILLION

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