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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:
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • lslamic_lottery101@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "THE ISLAMIC EMAILS LOTTERY." <lslamic_lottery2@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lslamic_lottery101@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:55:23 +0700
Subject: THE ISLAMIC EMAILS LOTTERY:YOU HAVE WON.

THE ISLAMIC EMAILS INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY.
102 MOHAMMAD AKRAM ROAD,AMMAN -KINGDOM OF JORDAN.
ASIAN CUSTOMER SERVICES CENTER.
115 SUKHUMVIT ROAD BANGKOK-KINGDOM OF THAILAND.
REF NO:FI/550/05ES.
BATCH NO:6677-05734.
DEAR WINNER,
MAY THE BLESSINGS AND THE PEACE OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH BE UPON YOU.
the lslamic emails lottery happily announce to you the draw of our emails lottery programs held on 18th APRIL 2007 IN ( AMMAN- KINGDOM OF JORDAN).your email address attached to ticket number:56475600545/188 with serial number 5388/06 drawn the lucky numbers:31-6-26-13-35-7.have won you the 1st ever conducted lslamic emails lottery.you have therefore been approved to claim your prize at the sum of ( US$500,000.DOLLARS) in cash credited to file:(KPC/9080118308/02/FLC).this is from a total cash prize of (US$5 MILLION DOLLARS)shared among the ten lucky winners.this is the 1st lslamic emails lottery and the biggest to be conducted in the lslamic world.please note that your winner number falls within our asian booklet center as indicated in our play coupon.please contact our customer services center for the released of your winning prize.all the lslamic participants were selected randomly from world wide email sites through the computerized system with the help
of (MICROSOFT CORPORATION).the lslamic emails lottery takes place periodically.for security reasons,you are advised to keep your winning lnformations confidential to avoid double claims.this lslamic emails lottery is to encouraged muslims world wide to use lnternet and promotes computer literacy in the lslamic world.
please,fill the lnformations below and contact the customer services center.
(1)FULL NAMES.
(2)AGE.
(3)SEX.
(4)ADDRESS.
(5)COUNTRY.
(6)STATE.
(7)PHONE NUMBER.
(8)FAX -NUMBER.
(9)MARITAL STATUS.
(10)OCCUPATION.
(11)REF:NUMBER.
(12)BATCH:NUMBER.
(13)AMOUNT WON.
......................................................................................................................................
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CLAIMS PROCESS AND CLEARANCE PROCEDURES MUST BE DULY COMPLETED EARLY TO AVOID IMPERSONATION ARISING TO THE ISSUE OF DOUBLE CLAIMS.PLEASE QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE AND BATCH NUMBERS WHEN CONTACTING THE CUSTOMER SERVICES CENTER.
MALLAM ABDULLAH ALI.
HEAD OF CUSTOMER SERVICES CENTER.
THE ISLAMIC EMAILS INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY.
115 SUKHUMVIT ROAD BANGKOK,KINGDOM OF THAILAND.
EMAIL:lslamic_lottery101@yahoo.com
THE ISLAMIC EMAILS INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY THE MICROSOFT CORPORATION,ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC COUNTIRES,ARAB LEAGUE,THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF JORDAN,GOVERNMENT OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT AND ISLAMIC ORGANIZATIONS BASED IN THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND.
........................................................................................................................................
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE MORE FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFFS OF THIS PORGRAMS.MAY ALMIGHTY ALLAH BLESSINGS BE UPON ALL MUSLIMS WORLD WIDE.

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