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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 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.
  • imsatecagency@consultant.com

Fraud email example:

From: guargar@guargar.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:56:34 +0100 (CET)
Subject: ATTN.WINNER


ATTN.WINNER
AWARD WON PRIZE NOTIFICATION
Ref Number: S.A/6500/3
Batch Number: S.A/52-22/70

Dear Lucky Winner,
This email confirms that you have been notified of by the POWERBALL INTER LOTTO S.A The Spanish of your email lottery winning for 2006 Powerball Lotto - Wheel E-game held on 20th December 2006.

The ongoing lottery promotion is an online cyber lotto draws conducted from an exclusive list of 2,500,000 different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. compelling from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program, Your email ID was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) from the internet. No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail with the following: Ticket Number: 4416273 with serial Number: 00510423 drew lucky Number: 6-13-24-27-30-38 as your address emerged as one of the 10 winners in the category "A"

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of $500,000.00(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ONLY) each from the total payout of $4,500,000,00. Your prize awards will be paid to you upon endorsement of the winners certificate and all official documents relating to your won prize as a precautionary measure to ensure that payment are been paid to the rightful winner.
To begin your claim you are advice to urgently contact the claim officer Mr. GOMEZ RAUL of Imsatec Agency Consultancy an accredited agency with the following contact information below. Please note, as all unclaimed prize are nullified and cancelled after 10 days from the date of this notice:
Mr. Gomez Raul
Tel: 34-646-730-725
Fax:34-911-414-306
Email: imsatecagency@consultant.com
In your best interest and to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your bank account.

This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/no participants of this program.

Congratulations once again.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Charo Xavier (Lottery Coordinator).
WebSite:www.powerball.com
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