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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!

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Free=20Lotto=20Promo=20Inc=A9=202007?= <free.lottoinc@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:21:54 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Maddalena Fiedmann


Dear Maddalena Fiedmann

Congratulations.

I received your email,and heartily congratulate you at your selection as one of the Free lottery international promotion ballot draw beneficiary,which makes your automatically entitled to the lump sum payout of One Million Pound Sterlings.

Participants of this draw were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professional,personal and company email address,drawn from Europe, America,Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots

For further processing of your winnings please provide the following details.

1. Full Names:
2. Address:
3. Age:
4. Sex:
5. Marital Status:
6. Occupation:
7. Phone numbers:
8. Fax number:
9. Country:

As soon as we receive the about data,and it is verified by our prize award verification department,your prize will be approved immediately,and we shall email you further procedure to facilitate the payout of the prize to you.

Congratulations once again..

Yours faithfully
Mr.David Flowell


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