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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:
  • "affidavit of claim" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "federal high court" (This court is often mentioned in '419' scams to give the victim a reason why he/she should send thousands of dollars to the scammers. A 'Federal High Court' exists in Germany and Nigeria, but not in other countries, such as the UK, Spain, Netherlands, Senegal, Benin, South Africa or other countries where fake lawyers in scams often claim to be based. )
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • barrister_jonnhart@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: SIR PETER CARL <petercarl2022@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: martins_allen65@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:56:37 +0100 (BST)
Subject: REPLY FROM MR PETER CARL




Attention: Ebba Wulf,

I appreciate your response in view of the winning notification letter that was addressed to you. I write to confirm to you that the winning notification letter that was addressed to you is the legitimate prize winning information that you won.

It may interest you to know that our lottery company organise annual lottery events in which we select some email contacts from the internet and filled into our RANDOM COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR SOME LUCKY WINNERS TO EMERGE.

It is the computer, through the random draws that select some email contacts among the numerious email that were filled into it for winners to emerge. All the winners that were communicated about their winning details for claim of their prize award from the lottery company did not at any time enter into any draw or purchase any coupon ticket from our lottery company. We are doing this promotion events annually in order to promote the lottery company and most of our winners always partispate in our end of the year lottery coupon draws from our lottery organisation.

With the above explanation, you can now understand the process through which you have be come a winner.

The lottery award prize of your winning is held in London in our affilliate corresponding paying bank. The detail of the bank will be giving to you as soon as you notarized your payment at the federal high court of London United Kingdom.

You will be required to contact the legal department for the notarization of your payment in the federal high court of London England.The legal officer to contact is Barrister Jonn Hart on email:barrister_jonnhart@yahoo.com

Also be informed that we always direct our winners to contact the legal department for the notarization of their payment for the issuance of affidavit of claim on their name as the legitimate winner and beneficiary of the prize award.

The legal documents are always submited to the paying bank as a confirmation that your payment is legalised payment that has the backing of the legal instructment as a geniune transaction that has not criminal origin.

I will like to assure you that you will never experience the urgle trend you passed through when you paid some fee to an unknown person that you could not trace.

Kindly comply with the above to enable us conclude your payment soonest.

Regards,
MR PETER CARL.

Hello my dear!

Generally speaking, one can not be a totally believer in these sort of things. It causes me think of a wise adage, Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Please tell me who gave to you my contact information? A little while ago, I met a kind old woman from Finland. Did you know this very same person? It might be that you got my contact information that way.

Please also confirm which country my winning fund is held?

Sometime ago I had sent some money to a person who wrote something very closely similiar as yours. He has still not answered back my last 15 messages and this makes me have some doubts about you.

Ms Ebba Wulf

Die Nikoläuse sind los.... http://www.pepilog.de/



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