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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.
• 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.
  • +44035902994
• 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.
  • ukwins1818@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • chrismaroadds@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?UK=20Lottery=20Organization?= <ukwins1818@yahoo.dk>
Reply-To: chrismaroadds@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:58:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION. TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DE


Jeg har en ny e-mail-adresse!Nu kan du e-maile mig på: ukwins1818@yahoo.dk



- - UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION. TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT. TELEPHONE: +44 03-590-2994. If you are the correct owner of this email address then be glad this day as the result of the UK lotto online e-mail address free-ticket winning draws of 29th August 2007 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email address won you the sweeptakes in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6Million. Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number: APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: MX014926583. You are to contact Mr Chris Maro on the below email address chrismaroadds@yahoo.com.hk for available options on how to receive your winnings fund. Note that Mr Chris Maro might fail to recognise you as the true winner and receiver of the US$4,600,000 if you fail to include the following in your contact mail to him:

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