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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. )
• 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.
  • mr_donmarkwilliam@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MICROSOFT SWEFT STAKE EMAIL LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION: UNITED KINGDOM"
<mla-0012@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <mr_donmarkwilliam@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:43:11 +0100
Subject: MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION







MICROSOFT WINDOW OFFICE:CUSTOMER SERVICEMicrosoft Mega Jackpot Email LotteryMicrosoft Building
Goodwick, Pembrokeshire
ManchesterI.P.P Award Dept.
LONDON, U.K

MICROSOFT SWEFT STAKE EMAIL LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION: UNITED KINGDOMWe happily announce to you the draw of the Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery International programs held on Wed 18 Apil 2007 in LONDON ENGLAND.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: MWOCS-130876 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand pounds sterling)

This is from a total cash prize of £8,000,000 ,shared amongst the first ten(16) lucky winners in this category.Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our europe booklet representative in LONDON ,ENGLAND as indicated in your play coupon.

In view of this, your £500.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand pounds sterling) cheque would be released to you by our fudiciary agent in LONDON,ENGLAND.Our Fudiciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your check as soon as you contact him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites and guestbooks through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 individuals and companies.This promotion takes place annually and it is sponsored by Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft and his associates to encourage the use of internet and computers world wide.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning informations confidential till your claims is processed and your cheque delivered to your nominated address through an approved delivering officer appointed specially for this program.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in London. In view of this, your £500.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in Europe. Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him.
To begin your claim please contact our licensed and accredited agent assigned to you

MR Donmark William EURO AFRO-ASIAN LOTTERYInformation and Payment Bureau:1290 LONDON Representative Office.E-mail:mr_donmarkwilliam@yahoo.co.uk



To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, you are to contact Mr WESLEY SCHOLESwith the followings details below:
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7COMPANY NAME
8.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
9.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
10.STATE: 11.COUNTRY:
12 Next of kin:
13How do u feel as a winner:
14AMOUNT WON:

2. quote your Ticket number in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.Winners under 18 years of age will be authomatically disqualified. Congratulations, once more from all members and staffs of this program.Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. Our special thanks and gratitude to Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of microsoft and all his associates.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings,and beyond where they so desire.Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Any lottery double claim dedected by ourmonitoring committee will lead to the Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake lottery cacelling the winnings. making a loss for both the real winner, and the fake (intended)claimer.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT DIRECTLY .
Sincerely,FROM: MR HERLEY PETTERSON.EURO AFRO-ASIAN ZONAL CO-ORDINATOR.
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