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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.
  • financeadmn@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Maria Juan Carlos <financeadmn@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:09:54 +0100
Subject: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER.





Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: EURO MILLION SWEEPTAKES MEGALOTERIA PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION!
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
Final draws of Euro million sweeptakes megaloteria Lottery Programs held on the
24th January 2007.

METHOD OF SELECTING WINNERS:
Participants were selected anonymously through online cyber ballot system
(Computer Ballot) from over 35,000 companies and 70,000 individual names
and e-mail addresses all over the world. At the final draw your e-mail
address emerged as the winner of our last jackpot.
This promotional program takes place annually as the year starts, and it is
promoted and sponsored by Orient software corporation (Orient Networks).
It is meant to reward some individuals and corporations who have devoted
their time and resources surfing the World Wide Web (www) .No tickets were
sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as the
winner in the category "A" with the following:
Ref Number: 45/2-0074/EUL
Batch Number: 2212-LAC/2007
Ticket Number: 909-319-7
Draw Lucky Numbers:801-711-040

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
€850,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EUROS ), Congratulation!
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claim processing of your prize winnings, you are advice to
contact our paying bank for category "A" winner with the details below:

San Pablo Fernandes
Departmento De Operation,
Banco Cetelem
C/Adve.De Los Plazas 23,Madrid,Spain
Contact E-mail Address: financeadmn@aim.com
TEL: 0034 679 930 392
FAX: 0034 692 593 074

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than the 20th of February
2007. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next
stakes. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
Due to mix up of some numbers and names/program abuse, we ask that you
keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
some participants.

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Yours faithfully,
Maria Juan Carlos
Lottery Coordinator.

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