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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 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.
  • miss_mary47@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: marc steven003 <marc_steven003@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:59:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear Lucky Winner


Canadian National Lottery (Lotto lore)
Address: 2nd Floor Chiltern House St Nicholas Court
25 - 27 Castlegate Nottingham NG1 7AR, United Kingdom
http/www.lottolore.com/
Winning notification

Dear Lucky Winner
,
We happily announce to you the result of the National Lotto 6/49
lottery draws held on Sat, Sept 15 , 2007,Lotto 6/49- Lotto 6/49 in Essex
United Kingdom and Ontario, Canada. All participants were selected
randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted
from over 10,000,00 companies and personal e-mail addresses.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 7560 4545 100 with serial number 046560 drew the winning numbers 9, 39, 40, 43, 46, 48, Bonus
24# You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
US$800,000.In cash credited to file EAAL/9080118308/04.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall within our African
booklet representative office in Nigeria as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your US$800,000. Would be released to you by an
accredited commercial Bank in Africa. Our African agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as
you contact their office. To file for your claim, please contact our
corresponding agent in Africa immediately you read this message for quick
and urgent release of your fund,
Contact information is as follow: -

Name: mary johnson
Email:claims_agent miss_mary47@yahoo.co.uk
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program
to all that have successfully won this competition and thank you for
being part of our promotional lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
marc steven.

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