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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD COCACOLA <ppcocacolacompany@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:31:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: NOTIFCATION NOTIFCATION NOTIFCATION



Attn

This is to bring to your Notice that you Became a one of the coca cola winning uk Annual Promo draws That was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet,


After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data


Ref Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: 12/25/0034
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750

AND YOUR WINNING MONEY HAS BEEN DEPOSITED IN THE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR WINNING COCA COLA AWARD MONEY.

we did not know any body you met on your way to belgium mr,and if you thioughted the winning Notifcation you Got.why don't you write A formal letter to us and emply that you Rejected this offer and stop Questioning the Authoritative of this company Head questers,



Thanks in anticpation





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