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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447011140261 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • nzofficial_agent@infohq.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: YAHOO LOTTERY PROMO 2007 <prize_announcement00059@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <yahoonzoffice@infohq.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:08:03 +0100
Subject:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATIONS!!!_Your_Email_Address_Has_Won_YAHOO!_LOTTE?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?RY_Prize_AWARD_of_=A3250,200.00?=





22ND AUGUST 2007





Dear Email Account Owner,





CONGRATULATIONS OUR LUCKY WINNER ! ! !The Board of Directors of "YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMOTION," wishes to announce to you after due verification of the results of our 'JUNE' Yahoo! Lottery Email Promotional Program held on Saturday the 30th June 2007. This result was initially delayed due to mix up of email addresses. The results were finally released on the 2nd July 2007, and your E-mail Account attached to:
YOUR WINNING INFORMATION

Draw Number:- 1047 - 30/06/07 Strike:- 13 40 23 01 Powerball:- 02Serial Number:- 4888/02 Lucky Numbers:- 01 13 23 28 32 40 Bonus Ball:- 38 and Batch Number:- YLI3552006/7 which consequently won the prize in the second category of the month of June 2007. Based on the above notification, the Board of Directors of Yahoo! has approved a lump sum payout of £250,200.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) only in cash which will be Paid to you on the DAY OF PRIZE PAYMENT PRESENTATION CEREMONEY in our United Kingdom Branch Office by the Board of Directors. In view of the foregoing, your prize funds has been deposited in one of our Paying Banks and has also been insured with your Email Address Pending when you will prove to your oficial Claim Agent that you are the original owner of the email account that won the Yahoo! Lottery Promo prize. Please Note: Due to mix up of some email addresses, we ask that you should keep your winning information from public notice until your prize has been processed and your prize paid out in Draft or transferred into any of your bank account.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claimant or unwarranted abuse of this program by fraudulent/scam people as we do receive a lot of complaints,hence our strict measures.
**********************************************************
To begin your Prize Claim,contact your CLAIM AGENT:-
PASTOR HARRISON STEVE
(BRITISH CITIZEN) PASSPORT NO:B81507972 DATE OF BIRTH: 10 OCT 1964 EXPIRATION OF INT'NAL PASSPORT: 28 SEPT 09.
D/Tel: + 44-701-114-0261. Email: nzofficial_agent@infohq.com
*******************************************************************
Yours sincerely,

ARTHUR KERN,DIRECTOR.


FOR: BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMO INC.


DISCLAIMER NOTICE:This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the Yahoo! Mail system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the email account named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.


YAHOO! Was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It began as a hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information. Today, led by an executive team that includes Chairman and CEO Terry Semel, Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig, Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker, Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem, and Co-Founders/Chief Yahoo¡¯s Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo! Inc. has become the world's largest global online network of integrated services. Yahoo! is a leading Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices around the globe.

Yahoo's! top priority is to provide users with the information they want, when they want it, how they want it and on any device. To ensure this, Yahoo! Offers a broad and deep array of products and services that provide our users with the power to connect, communicate, and create, access, and share information online. With this lotto program for our customers around the world.




CONGRATULATIONS FROM YAHOO! INTERNATIONAL !

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