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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.
• 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.
  • rsuk-fdm-harry-a-g-2@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "REALITY SECURITY UK Mr Martin Gieri Cad" <rsuk-fdm-harry-a-g-2@myway.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:17:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re:{Spam?} NON


Dear winner, Participants were selected through a computer ballot System drawn from35,000 names/email addresses of Individuals and companies from Africa,America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of ourinternational promotions program.You/your Company, attached to ticket number 66-1-452, with serial number52-27 drew the winning Numbers 2 18 24 25 30 40, (45) and consequently wonin the second category draws.You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of £ 2,800,000:00 m gbp(two million, eight hundred thousand Pounds), which is the winning payoutfor second category Winners. This is from the total prize money of£8,400,000:00 shared between Three (3) winners in the Category b.Mr Harry Gieri Caduff Foreign department manager,REALITY SECURITY UK,WARWICKSHIRE CV37 6JFLONDON UK. FAX: +-4-4-8-7-1-2-6-4-4-4-1-6 +-4-4-8-7-1-2-6-4-1-2-5-3TEL: +-4-4-7-0-2-4-0-9-1-0-6-1E-mail: rsuk-fdm-harry-a-g-2@myway.com--- On Mon 03/05, Odiana Hertler &lt;
odianahertler9@germanmail.info &gt; wrote:From: Odiana Hertler [mailto: odianahertler9@germanmail.info]To: rsuk-fdm-harry-a-g-2@myway.comDate: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:00:28 +0000Subject: Re:{Spam?} NONHello my friend!To be honest, I am not a person who cares about the supernatural but one or two weird things have been suddenly happening to me, including your message. I am wondering if I should treat them as a premonition.I am still uneasy and I am not convinced how I was selected for this award.Let me have some kind advice about an issue that is making me disturbed, what if the EU police finds out about my sudden funds?If you wish my identification credentials, then please scrutinise the details inside this email.Please do not ignore me. I will expect your answer.Ms HertlerGünter Schwaningers Heimseite. http://www.gschwaninger.de/--Attachment: driverlicence.jpg/MIME/BASE 64--*Attachment removed by Qmail server*No attachments are permitted to be sent from germanmail.com. This is
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