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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "EURO MILLIONS INTERNATIONAL" <jenni@reedtribe.org>
Reply-To: johnfletcher101@walla.com
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:31:10 +0100
Subject: FROM: THE DESK OF THE CYBER ANALYST

EURO MILLIONS NEW YEAR BONANZA,
175 WOODHILL ROAD,BULKYARD,LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
FROM: THE DESK OF THE CYBER ANALYST,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.


REF: OYL /26510460037/02
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD


Dear Winner,

Your ticket number:023-0148-790-459 with Serial number 5368/05 drew the
lucky number: 29


Congratulations, you have just won yourself £1.5million in the satellite
software email lottery conducted by EURO MILLIONS in which e-mail addresses
are picked randomly by software powered by the Internet.Your email address
was among those chosen this quarter and you are to contact our Financial
Controller for Clearance. Here are the contact info:


Financial controller:
Mr JOHN FLETCHER
Email:johnfletcher101@walla.com
You are to forward the following details to enable us clear you file for
immediate payment:


1.Full Names:_______________________

2.Address:__________________________

3.Age:_____________________________

4.Sex:______________________________

5.Marital Status:__________________

6.Occupation:_______________________

7.Phone numbers:______________________

8.Fax number:________________________

9.country:___________________________



Yours faithfully,
MRS:TESSY ANDERSON
EURO MILLION CYBER ANALYST
UNITED KINGDOM.



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