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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:
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • patrick-safe@safe-mail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "patrick safe" <out_going_message@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:12:51 +0100
Subject: THE COCA COLA COMPANY

THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
COCA COLA AVENUE STAMFORD
BRIDGE LONDON
SW1V 3DW
UNITED KINGDOM.





ATTN: SIR.


THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION





WE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU OF THE RESULT OF THE JUST CONCLUDED
ANNUAL FINAL DRAWS HELD ON THE (1, JAN 2007) BY COCA-COLA IN
CONJUNCTION WITH THE BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO WORLDWIDE PROMOTION, YOUR
EMAIL WAS AMONG THE 20 LUCKY WINNERS WHO WON £2,000,000.00 EACH
ON THE COCA COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.





HOWEVER THE RESULTS WERE RELEASED ON THURSDAY, 4, JAN, 2007 AND YOUR
EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO TICKET NUMBER (7PWYZ2006) AND BALLOT NUMBER
(BT:12052006/20) THE ONLINE DRAWS WAS CONDUCTED BY A RANDOM SELECTION OF
EMAIL ADDRESSES FROM AN EXCLUSIVE LIST OF 29,031 E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF
INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATE BODIES PICKED BY AN ADVANCED AUTOMATED RANDOM
COMPUTER SEARCH FROM THE INTERNET.





HOWEVER, NO TICKETS WERE SOLD BUT ALL EMAIL ADDRESSES WEREASSIGNED TO
DIFFERENT TICKET NUMBERS FOR REPRESENTATION AND PRIVACY. THE SELECTION
PROCESS WAS CARRIED OUT THROUGH RANDOM SELECTION IN OUR COMPUTERIZED EMAIL
SELECTION MACHINE (TOPAZ) FROM A DATABASE OF OVER 250,000 EMAIL ADDRESSES
DRAWN FROM ALL THE CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD.

THIS LOTTERY IS APPROVED BY THE BRITISH GAMING BOARD AND ALSO LICENSED BY
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GAMING REGULATORS (IAGR). IN OTHER TO CLAIM
YOUR, £2,000,000.00 POUNDS PRIZE WINNING! THIS HAS BEEN DEPOSITED IN A
DESIGNATED BANK.





HOWEVER, YOU WILL HAVE TO FILL THE FORM BELOW AND SEND IT TO THE
PROMOTION MANAGER OF THE COCACOLA COMPANY FOR VERIFICATION AND
THEN YOU WILL BE DIRECTED TO THE BANK WHERE A CHEQUE OF £2,000,000.00 POUNDS
HAS ALREADY BEEN DEPOSITED IN YOUR FAVOR.





NAME:..............................,AGE:...................,SEX:...........ADDRESS:.........,EMAIL:..........
.......,PHONE:...............0CCUPATION:...........,COMPANY:...........COUNTRY:................
PLEASE YOU ARE ADVISED TO SEND US THE INFORMATION AS INDICATED ABOVE
IMMEDIATELY TO OUR PROMOTION MANAGER THROUGH EMAIL FOR PROMPT
COLLECTION OF YOUR FUND.





(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)
Name: MR. PATRICK SAFE
EMAIL:patrick-safe@Safe-mail.net




YOU ARE TO KEEP ALL LOTTO INFORMATION AWAY FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC
ESPECIALLY YOUR TICKET NUMBER and BALLOT NUMBER. (THIS IS IMPORTANT AS A
CASE OF DOUBLE CLAIMS WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED),

YOURS SINCERELY.






MR. JOHNSON WILLIAMS
LOTTO RECORDS AND AUDIT DEPT.
COCA COLA COMPANY.

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