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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.
  • europeanlotterycongress123@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Eropean Lottery Congress <european_l_congress2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <europeanlotterycongress123@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:10:28 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON !!!





FIFA -YAHOO 2006 WORLD CUP LOTTERY

SPONSORS
WINNING NO: 002/5432/AF



ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
Ref: 575061725Batch: 8034163295/188Winning no: 002/5432/AF
CONGRATULATIONS !!!

Dear Lucky winner, We are delighted to inform you, of your prize release from the FIFA -YAHOO 2006 WORLD CUP JOINT LOTTERY BOARD
Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses , your Email was attached to ticket number 8056490902 serial number 6741137002 batch number 8034163295/188
This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 4-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You hereby have been approved of the sum of US$300,000.00 (DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref No. ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$1,000,000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from canada,Australia, United state,Europe,Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of 2006 World Cup promotion programme .
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some multinational and international companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communitties where they have operational base.


Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote personal winning numbers in all correspondence with us. Congratulations once again from all members of FIFA -YAHOO 2006 WORLD CUP JOINT LOTTERY BOARD .

Thank you for being part of our promotional program. For the immediate release of your cash prize, please contact Our Co-ordinator at: europeanlotterycongress123@yahoo.es

Send the following Personal Data:(i). Your names,
(ii) your winning numbers
(iii) Quote amount won.(iv) Date of birth(v) Occupation
(vi) Contact Address (vii) Cell phone, telephone and fax numbers
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claims is processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note: all winnings MUST be claimed within 14 days from the day of notification.


Peter Jones

(Co-ordinator)
Madrid, Spain

BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.


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