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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:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • worldscups2010freelottery@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?Windows-1252?Q?FREE_LOTTERY_YOU_HAVE_WON_GBP_=A31
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:23:58 +0100
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?YOU_HAVE_WON_GBP_=A31,000,000.00_?=



WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY,HEADQUARTER, UNITED KINGDOM.=====================Winning NO: XB3/701/LNRCBatch NO: 905534213/255Ref NO: 7458222754=====================Dear Lucky Winner,We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 200 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 11th AUG 2007. All 200 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 100,000,000 {ONE HUNDRED MILLION} international emails addresses.Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of GBP £1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION POUNDS) only. Your email address emerged along side with 199 others as a category of winner in this year's Annual Draw.The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota,Toshiba. The world cup free lottery draw is held once in every four years interval. And is also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers.We are proud to say that over GBP £25 Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries world-wide.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until you claim your prize money.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.Fill the form below to enable us process you winning prizeNAME.ADDRESS.PHONE NO.OCCUPATION.AGE.SEX.COUNTRY.CONTACT MR. THOMAS FREEMAN FOR CONFIRMATION!!!NAME: MR. THOMAS FREEMANEMAIL:worldscups2010freelottery@yahoo.com Sincerely, Mrs. Larisa HullPromotions ManagerCongratulations once again !!!
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