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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:

• 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.
  • +447045733811 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Samsung Electronics <samsungelectawardpromo@networld.at> (may be fake)
Reply-To: contactverificationdept_samsg_c6@strompost.info
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:40:53 +0200
Subject: INFORMATION FROM SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS.


SAMSUNG DE LOTTERIA
INTERNET EXTRA AWARD PROGRAM,
U.K OFFICE.ENGLAND.
HART STREET 34,WALSALL.WS1 3PE
WEST MIDLAND, LONDON.

Ref: EGS/2251256003/02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD

DEAR WINNER ,



INFORMATION FROM SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS.

The board of directors and entire member of staff of the SAMSUNG DE LOTTERIA
wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address Ballot) online
Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter.

Your email account have been picked as a winner of Six Hundred Thousand Pounds
Sterling (£600,000.00) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred
Thousand Pounds Sterling (£4,200,000.00) shared amongst seven winners.

This results for 7th October, 2007 is now released to you today and your email
address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number5368/02drew
the lucky numbers - 03 - 07- 01 - 32 - 45 - 48 - and bonus ball - 22 - in the
Lotto, participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
Microsoft users from company and individual email address users.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims have
been processed and your money remitted to you.

For the release of your winning, kindly contact your claims supervisory officer
with the information below

**********************************************
Payment Release Order Department
Contact Person: Claudio Giovanni
Tel: +44-704-573-3811
Fax:+44-700-593-8042
Email: contactverificationdept_samsg_c6@strompost.info
*************************************************

You are therefore advised to give the following informations to the fiduciary
Dr. Claudio Giovanni via email:
contactverificationdept_samsg_c6@strompost.info

1.Full Name and Address:
2.Country:
3.Tel and Fax number.
4.Age:
5.Sex:
6.Marital Status:
7.Occupation:
8.Email Address:

Congratulations from the entire member of staff and thank you for being part of
our email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Bob Mcneil,
Executive (International Sweepstakes).

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr.Franklyn Van
Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director
International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael
Cole(Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).




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