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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • pl_muller1@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: canadian lottery <c.l.w.n10@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 13:41:35 +0200
Subject: Online Canadian Lottery Winning Notification.



FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS AWARD DEPARTMENT CANADA. Date: July 04/2007, Ref: MXE/061725/06, Batch: TXC/6490902/188, Winning No: Quot 3/4 CONGRATULATIONS Dear Winner,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on Fri May 4, from the Canadian International Lottery program. Your name "email address" was attached to ticket number: B/7056490902, serial number: 889002/05/06/2007. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 23 24 25 39 40 42 46 bonus number5,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of US$ 920,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND TWENNTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 474061720/05 from the total cash prize of US14, 000,000.00 shared amongst sixteen lucky winners, based on their category.
All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international promotions program, which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. Please do contact: DR PAUL MULLERS (M.D). CANADIAN LOTTERY BOARD Email:pl_muller1@yahoo.ca

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full names and address to help locate your file easily.
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 dual claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed with a specified date; otherwise YOUR PRIZE will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity. Congratulations once again on your winnings! Best Regards Susan Davies (coordinator) Address: 1450 Don Mills Rd.,Don Mills, Ont. M3B 2X7 Tel/fax: 1 831 303 7536 www.canada.com Note: your can firm your winning by clicking on the following information: {http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=7}
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