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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447092881256 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447045710260 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +442078703762

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Darryn Clark" <mrsdarrynclark5@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 04:49:37 -0600
Subject: YOU HAVE WON YAHOO LOTTERY AWARD!!!!


















THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC Barley House Harold Road Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom.
MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD
Dear Winner,

YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 3ND MAR, 2007 from the YAHOO! International Lottery Program. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses, your e-mail was attached to ticket number 47061725 07056490902, serial number 7741137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the First category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum of US$1,800,000 .00(ONE MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)in cash credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$50,000,000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst 40(Fourth) lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a sorting and filtering program designed by Dr Philip Emegwali from 50,000,000 (fifty million) e-mail addresses from the web because you have once visited one of Yahoo! sponsored sites. This is part of our international promotions program which is conducted monthly to promote the use of the internet with the world as a global village. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by YAHOO! We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to yahoomail, msn, hotmail, aol, altavista, and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only Fifty people will be merge for winnings. we only select fifty people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this month..

you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved .

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet representative office in UK as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your won prize will be released to you by any of our payment Banks in Africa or it's correspndence Bank in UK .Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him through the email address or telephone numbers as directed below.


Oversea Payment and Release Order Department,
CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT
Contact Person: Prof. Desmond O'Connor.
Yahoo Towers,Peterborough,SQ1 WG3 UNITED KINGDOM.
Tel: +442078703762Fax: +447092881256
Mob:+44 70457 10260EMAIL: claimoffice@claimagent.uk.tt


With the following are your Particulars.
Security Code: AL/FEB/XX01
Ref: 4758961725 Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPR

SECURITY
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.Note, all winnings MUST be claimed otherwise the funds will be returned as unclaimed.
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of YAHOO! Thank you for being part of this promotional email lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Darryn Clarke
Yahoo! 2007 Lottery program
Barley House Harold Road Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom. Tel: +448704799345.







Security Advice :At The Yahoo International Lottery we understand the importance of security. That's why we've created highly secure facilities to give you confidence during our promotions programs or when you play our games online, on TV via Sky Active or using your mobile phone to play by text. Warning: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be using Yahoo International Lottery addresses, but are not from us. If you receive similar email that is not from us, kindly disregard/discard it immediately. Do NOT reply any such email but genuine email from us via this email address. Our security pages that will give you more information about current scams and what measures you can take to protect yourself.

NOTICE: You have received this message from Yahoo International Lotto Lottery prize dept. because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors. If you wish to be taken out of this list do not reply to this mail, reply to the agent with the words remove. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.
Thank you.


MANAGEMENT.
YAHOO LOTTERY.
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