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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: Barry Hurst <claimsofficerdp_uk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:36:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Congratulations.


THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
MICROSOFT WORD LOTTERY UK.3b Olympic Way
Sefton Business Park
Aintree Liverpool L30 1RD
REF NO: MSW-L/322-669844
BATCH: 2007MJL+07

Attn Mr Rolando Naumann,

Thanks for your email,well i must tell you that you are lucky to have been one of our winner of this year lottry promotions...

you are to provide us with the following informations for your fund delivery,

Claims Requirements:
1.Name in full------------------
2.Address-----------------------
3.Nationality-------------------
4.Age/Sex-----------------------
5.Marital ----------------------
6.Occupation--------------------
7.Phone/Fax---------------------
8.Present Residential Country---
9.Ref: Number-------------------

once again Congratulations..

Yours Faithfully,
Barry Hurst.


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