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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.
  • sweepstakeworldrangelotto@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: euro lotto <eurolottoinfowebagency@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: sweepstakeworldrangelotto@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:10:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: e-mail winning no45407 congrats!


MEGA BUCKS AWARD DEPARTMENT
151 Canada Square, Canary Wharf,
London E14 5DY, United Kingdom.

Batch No: SMBA/2907/444/908/07
Ticket No: 45407
Lucky No: 3-18-40-40-76
Serial No: 51622
Ref No: SMB/WIN/008/07/03/LUK

Dear Winner,

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting sweepstake held on 28th of june, 2007.

This is a millennium scientific computer game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet
Users; therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it.

Your email was attached to ticket number 45407 and serial number 51622, which consequently won the lottery in the forth category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum of 350,000.00 (THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) for emerging the winner in the forth category. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from: canada, Australia, United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have perational base.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR BELOW WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:

Batch No: SMBA/2907/444/908/07
Ticket No: 45407
Lucky No: 3-18-40-40-76
Serial No: 51622
Ref No: SMB/WIN/008/07/03/LUK

Please find below the contact details of the Agent you are to contact:

Mr. Edward Lopez
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DIRECTOR
1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf,
London E14 5DY, United Kingdom
E-mail: sweepstakeworldrangelotto@yahoo.co.uk


THIS FORM SHOULD BE FILED BY THE LOTTERTY WINNER OF THE STATED FUND FOR VERIFICATION BEFORE PROCESSING THE LOTTERY WINNING:
****FULL NAME*
****RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS*
****OCCUPATION*
****COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE*
****TEL NO*
****EMAIL*
****TICKET NUMBER*
****BATCH NUMBER*


For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim 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.

Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of STAR MEGA BUCKS AWARD DEPARTMENT to all our lucky winners.

Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically Disqualified.

Best Regards,
Finela Williams
(Management).
London, United Kingdom.

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


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