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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "part of our security protocols" (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.
  • claimmingagent@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: cliams_ 2 <claims_2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <claimmingagent@gawab.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:28:32 +0200
Subject: !!!ELECTRONICS RAFFLES 2007!!!



FROM THE DESK OF THE VICE AND PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS/PRIZE GIVING AWARD AVENUE NKRUMAH SECTOR 104OUAGA BP
CONGRATULATIONS Dear lucky winner We are pleased to inform you of the result of the electronic lottery raffle draw international programs held on the 20th JULY, 2007.
Your email address was attached to Ticket n¡¦= 31008478-2514785//iplr/09/2007 with Serial n¡¦114522069//iplr/06/2007 Drew lucky n¡¦996632145//iplr/09/2007
Which consequently won in this year 2007, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of €950,000.00 euro only. nine hundred and fifty thousand euro only.
!!!Congratulations!!!Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been processed and your prize award remitted to you. this is part of our security protocols to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. The congressionally mandated electronic lottery raffle draw is administered on an annual basis by the international software organisation committee and conducted under the terms of section 203c of the lottery and claiming act elc. section 131 of the lottery act of 1990 pub.l.101-649 amended elc 203 to provide for a new class of third world known as electronic lottery. the act makes available over 20 000 companies and 30 000 000 individuals email addresses from all over the world.
The annual electronic lottery raffle draw program makes available to persons meeting the simple but strict eligibility requirements. Candidate for electronic lottery raffle draw are chooses by a computer-generated random lottery drawing. the prizes however are distributed among six geographic regions with a great number of prizes going to regions with lower rates of least develop nations within each region no one country may receive more than seven percent of the available electronic lottery in this year. For electronic lottery raffle draw 2007 natives of the following countries are not eligible to benefit because they have benefited fully from previous 2 years.
Note/ less than 21years of age are not eligible to benefit from this program.
To file for your claim please kindly contact our claim agent email address as stated but in small letter word claimmingagent@gawab.com !!!Congratulations!!!!Contact your claim agent above for due processing and remittance of your prize fund to a designated account of your choice.
Remember you must contact your claim officer not later than 21st day of AUGUST, 2007. After this date all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Note/in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications.Please remember to quote your reference numbers in every one of your correspondences with your officers. Furthermore should there be any change of your address do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.
Congratulation again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. We wish you continued good fortunes.Best regards. MR.ALIKO SMITH.
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