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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • lotteryffc@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER <paulineerran@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 03:49:22 -0600
Subject: RE: CONGRATULATIONS!!!, YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER






POWERBALL INTER LOTTO. BV POWERBALL LOTTO-WHEEL E-GAME 2007, Date: 05 - 10- 2007 Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP BATCH Nº: 14/0017/1PD Coupon No.: PBL2348974321

CONTACT: lotteryffc@yahoo.com

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

The POWERBALL INTER LOTTO BV, England; lotto e-games Organizers and sponsors officially notify you of the final draw result of the Power ball Lotto - Wheel E-game draw held on 5th May 2007. All Draws where conducted at our international corporate office complex in The Netherlands.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number, which was selected among the 7 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.PBL2348974321 and was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 10,000 different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 10,000 different email addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of US $10,000,000 (Ten million US Dollars Only). The POWERBALL INTER LOTTO BV, have approved the payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency to released your payment via bank transfer.

Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize. For more information on claim of your prize, please contact the DPU Information Officer.

NAME: Mr. Louis StevenE-mail: lotteryffc@yahoo.com TEL: FAX:
Be advice to keep you’re winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth-coming Power ball Lotto-Wheel Email-games in 2010.



Regards, Executive (Bristish Lottery Intern.)

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 7 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers along with the winning information's you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it. All winning must be claimed not later than 29nd October 2007. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to British Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.
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