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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: Mrs Lucas <lillcasm@aim.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:33:21 +0100
Subject: Listed Lucky numbers


ELECTRONIC MAIL MULTIMILLIONAIRE LOTTO
Leidschendam-Middenwg
Oude Middenweg 201 C
2491 AH 's-Gravenhage
Netherlands
Dear Lucky Winner,
The draw of Electronic Mail Multi-Millionaire Lottery program. online Sweepstakes
global Program held on 16th February 2007, won you the Lottery in the
JACKPOT Bonus. The amount you luckily won is yet to be claimed and you are
getting the FINAL notification as regards this Email.
Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning numbers: 14,15, 12,
2, 13, 6,4 By our computer draw system, which subsequently won you the lottery
in the Email Lottery (e-Lottery).Because your email was attached to our
winning numbers, you are QUALIFIED as one of the
draw winners. You have therefore been approved to claim:a total sum of
€ 999,999.00 (Nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine Euro) in CASH credited to file number ;
PMEL-75512831744. and Draw Number: 82462539142. The Billion LOTTERY and the EURO MILLIONS??, are the richest Lottery Agencies in the whole world.The total
cash prize was shared amongst (5) lucky winners in this category i.e Email
Lottery (e-Lottery) All participants for the Email Lottery (e-Lottery) were
selected randomly from World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through our Email Lottery
Draw System (E.L.D.S) and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and
corporate bodies that are listed online.
This Lottery programme is part of the Country's Programme to fund for the
Olympic Games in 2012 (The € 1 bn Olympic lottery puzzle).Other sums to be

raised from the National Lottery would be from Ticket sales,Marketing,
Sponsorship and the sale of Television rights.
Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) for this winning, your email was
selected by our E.L.D.S.(e-Lottery) randomly.Your € 999,999.00 will be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them. Claiming your money is Easy
and Safe.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and till your money is transferred to
you in your country.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your claim,
kindly forward your completed form to our Online coordinator with the information below:
Complete the below form and summit it to :
Mrs. Lilian Lucas
Tel+31-84-711-6403
Fax:+31847238468
email: llnlucas@aol.com

( 1 ) FULL NAMES: .................
( 2 ) WINNING NUMBERS:..............
( 3 ) E-MAIL ADDRESS: .............
( 4 ) TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:.........
( 5 ) AGE:..................
( 6 ) COUNTRY: ................
( 7 ) LANGUAGE: .......................
( 8 ) OCCUPATION: ....................
( 9 ) AMOUNT WON: ....................
( 10 ) HAVE YOU EVER WON A LOTTERY BEFORE:..........
( 11 ) HOW DO YOU FEEL TO BE A WINNER:..........
MODE OF COLLECTION
(1) ELECTRONIC TRANSFER.
(2) CHECK .

Please make sure you indicate your choice of collection to enable easy and fast
delivery.
Congratulations from me and members of staff of Millionaire Web E-MAIL LOTTERY??.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Lilian Lucas
Online coordinator Millionaire Web EMAIL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program ?? Copyright 2007

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