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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!
• 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.
  • +2348032798337 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • dangotedeptclaim@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "DANGOTE PROMO WINNER" <abioduoni01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: abioduoni01@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:22:58 +0100
Subject: DANGOTE PROMOTIONAL DRAW 2007

 

                          DANGOTE PROMOTIONAL DRAW 2007

 

Government Accredited Lisenced!!

Registered Under The Data Protection

Act Of ( Reg : Z7022769CD245002 )

www.dangote-group.com

14th Of March 2007

 

 

  The  Dangote Group Company has just concluded its final draws of it's periodical promotional program. An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer search from the internet with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently won in the First Category.

 No tickets were sold. Your email address emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes category"A" as email addresses were soughted, from a total number of 1,000,000 addresses drawn from all over the globe. After an automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only Seven winners emerged in this category and therefore each are to receive payouts of $2,000,000.00 usd  from the total of $14,000,000.00 usd ( Fourteen Million United States Dollar ).

 

However,every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket number,after the cyber lotto selection, the below ticket and reference numbers emerged as one of the lucky winners in the above category.CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- LSLUK/2031/8161/07
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD.
ticket number 50941465206-529

 

For your prize claim processing, you are to contact the lotto department office of the Dangote Group Company, the name below is the assigned agent responsible for the claiming of your winnings.

Mr. Daan John Dominic. 
Claim Dangote Department office,

EMAIL : dangotedeptclaim@hotmail.com

PHONE NUMBER: +2348032798337

 

 NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO FILL IN THE SPACE IN THIS FORM AND CONTACT  THE LOTTO DEPARTMENT OFFICE FOR VERIFICATIONS.

DANGOTE WINNER CLAIM VERIFICATION FORM WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA First Name.: * Middle Name.: Last Name.: * Gender.: MaleFemale Month Of Birth.: MonthJanuaryFebuaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember Day: Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Year: Marital Status.: SingleMarriedDivorced Nationality.: * Religion.: Occupation.: Address 1.: * Address 2.: City.: * State/Province.: * Zip Code.: * Mobile phone No.: * House Phone No.: * Fax No.: Email Address.: * eg. username@domainname.com WINNING INFORMATION Batch Number.: * Serial Number.: * Refrence Number.: * This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: No:   We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future. Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.       Sincerely, Mr.ABIODU ONI  (Co-ordinator)

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