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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.
  • faradayhagar205@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "award22@terra.es" <award22@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:11:41 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: you are bless with this lottery winning.



Dear sir/ma


It is my warmest pleasure writing you this business letter with a view that you will accept my request and give me a positive response hence time is essence. I am the payment officer controlling the whole of african zone for euro-prudent lottery awards here in africa. And by the virtue of my position and the power bestowed on me by the organisation, I hereby notify you that there's this won prize sum of (TEN MILLION EUROS) that is about to be return to the company as unclaim funds,I have decided to contact you about it. well if you know that you are interested in this bussiness proposal, all I want from you is to stand as the winner of the won prize money in question, as this organization does not allow their staff to per-take in any of this lottery competition.Moreso, this is also one of the lay dawn policy of the lottery company, Now that the company has directed me to prepare the records of all pending won prize money to the winners.(Unclaimed)


Meanwhile, the winner of the said fund has been sent a notification information since 16th of january 2007, and uptill date there has not been any response from the award winner.Since the policy of the company states that if a notification is been sent to a winner after 21 working days without response from the beneficiary, then the money returns to the company as unclaimed funds. As the first category of the lottery winners, which is from total prize of( 100,000, 000.00 euros) shared among the tenth international winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 10 million names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe and North America,Asia,Middle East and Africa as part of International Promotions Programme which is being conducted annually,This fund is now deposited with a company here in Africa and inssured.


Meanwhile, the prize money will be shared between me and you,at the rate of 50% each. Note that I have done my homework very well in our company as the payment officer/director controlling the whole of african zone for eurprudent lottery awards, this transaction is safe and guaranteed 100% risk free.


NOTE: If you know that you are interested in this business transaction, kindly contact me to enable me facilitate this business transaction with you. Please ensure to treat this matter in strict privacy as I protect my interest and job with the lottery company for now. Awaiting to hear from you asap. and please reply me back immediately if you know that you are interested in this business deal through my alternative email box (faradayhagar205@yahoo.es). God bless you and your family.



Regards,from,
(Rev Faraday Hagar)
payment officer/director
for europrudent lottery
award, african zone.





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