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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • infoawardclaimsagent@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: walter jones <walterjones1h@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <infoawardclaimsagent@yahoo.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:20:44 -0600
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY



WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLYAttn Lucky Winner,We are pleased to inform you that you have emerged awinner in the final annual draw of our LotteryInternational Programs. Your email address was selected by our ElectronicRandom Selection System (ERSS) from an exclusive listof 250,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual andcorporate bodies generated from an internet resourcedatabase.No tickets were sold.Your email address is identified with Batch Number:444821545-NL/2007 and Ticket Number: PP 3812 /2007-07in Category "A" and your claims portfolio is filedwith Ref Number: MARKT 80 ES 9414.You are therefore toreceive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. (Two MillionFive Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from thetotal payoutCONGRATULATIONS!!!. Your prize award has been insured under a bondeddepository policy with your e-mail address, and willbe transferred to you upon meeting the claimsrequirements, statutory obligations,verifications,validations and satisfactory report.To file for your claims,please contact your assignedclaims agent with details as stated below; *************************************Name: Mr. Edward LestraEmail: infoawardclaimsagent@yahoo.de*************************************You are advice to provide him with the followinginformation: Names:Telephone/Fax number:Nationality:Age:Occupation:NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included inthe next stake. Remember to quote your referenceinformation in all correspondence.You are to keep all lotto informationconfidential,especially your reference and ticketnumbers. This is important as a case of double claims will not beentertained. Members of staff of affiliate agenciesare automatically not allowed to participate in thisprogram.Furthermore, should there be any change of address doinform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulationsonce more from our members of staff and thank you forbeing part of our promotional program.Yours Faithfully,Walter Jones.Lottery Coordinator.
PRIVACY STATEMENT 1. Personal and winning data provided by winners toMARKT LOTTERY remains known ONLY to the winner andMARKT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS ORGANISATION.
2a. All e-mail addresses, contact information,photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOTbe published or disclosed on ANY public or in anyother public place or via any medium accessible to thepublic. 2b. All e-mail addresses, contactinformation,photographs and/or personal data ofwinners SHALL NOT be disclosed to or made available toany third party or agent outside the claims office. 3. All e-mail addresses, contact information and/orpersonal data of winners are kept in an isolateddatabase server protected from any external accessusing SSL locking on 6th level binary pharse. Thisdata is made accessible ONLY to MARKT INTERNATIONALCYBER LOTTERY staff and authorized agents directlyinvolved with the processing of winners claims. 4. Winners are advised to keep their winninginformation away from public knowledge, in order toavoid any double claims, impersonation ormisrepresentation during the claims process.MARKTINTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS will not be liablefor any misplaced claims as a owing to your negligenceor publishing of your winning information.
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