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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:
  • "22 garden close, stamford" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
  • "the bmw automobile company" (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • dr_p_smith@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jullet_henry6@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:26:11 +0100
Subject:

THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS
PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF
THE BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.
22 Garden Close, Stamford, Lincs, PE9 2YP, London
United Kingdom.
Reference Number: BMW/9420X2/68


!!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!.
The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness
Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile Company, wishes to congratulate
you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this years' BMW Automobile
International Awareness Promotion (IAP) held on Saturday 20th of May, 2007,
in London, England.

This makes you the proud owner of a brand new BMW 5 Series, M Sport
Saloon car and a cash prize of £400,000.00 GBP (Four Hundred Thousand Great
British pounds). The car comes with a special BMW Insurance Cover for one
whole year, that is, till the next promotion in 2008. It also comes with
a one year warranty and FREE repairs at any BMW AUTOMOBILE depot or service
station worldwide.

DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE VEHICLE.

YEAR: 2006, MODEL: 550i M Sport Saloon
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a
million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email address was
attached to a ticket number and your email address with ticket number: 5647600545188
and serial number: BMWP/5368/02 was randomly selected as the star prize
winner amongst other consolation prize winners.

For you to collect your prizes, kindly fill the verification form below
and send it to the AGENTR unit, Dr. Peters Smith through email, stating
your receipt of this notification. He has been mandated to offer you assistance
and facilitate the urgent delivery of your prizes.

Dispatch Officer:
Dr. Peters Smith
BMW AGENT
EMAIL:(dr_p_smith@myway.com)



VERIFICATION FORM:

1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE:
3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE:
9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
12.) TICKET NUMBER:
13.) SERIAL NUMBER:



Congratulations once more, and keep trusting BMW Automobile for top quality
automobiles.


Engr. Dr. Peters Smith
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS,
BMW AUTOMOBILE.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.

Anti-fraud resources:

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