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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 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.
  • cambankes@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: thegaming34 thegaming34 <thegaming34@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:20:49 -0400
Subject: From:Mrs Dale Mellor(Award Co-ordinator)



From:Mrs Dale Mellor(Award Co-ordinator)WINNER WINNER WINNERAvda.Madrid,8-280011 San Sebastian Madrid-Spain(Award affiliate with Subscriber Agents).website:www.lotto.es The gaming board is pleased to inform you of the result of the online award program held on the the 17th of September,2007.Your E-mail address attached to
ESP number # 89765489 and online number # 4646428,was awarded the sum of 550.000.00 euros.This program is organized to promote special internet products like online banking etc. This draws was conducted formally and winners were selected through a special internet ballot system from 40,000 individuals and companies E-mail addresses.
To avoid double claim you are strictly advised to keep your winning numbers confidential.Details on how to transfer your award to you will be given when you contact the paying bank.For immediate release of your winnings please contact our paying bank and send them the following information:
*************************************************************(i) Name:(ii) Contact telephone and fax numbers:(iii) Contact Address :(iv) Winning numbers (ESP and online numbers):(v) Awarded amount :(vi) Notification date :*************************************************************
Contact person: Dr.Morris Cataldo E-mail: cambankes@aim.com Tel: +0034-634-08-80-60Calling hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00am-7:00pm NOTE:If English is not your first lan guage and you have problems understanding this e-mail,please visit this website (http://babelfish.altavista.com/),you will be able to translate this mail in several other languages.

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