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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:
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • +34652506177 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • coperate_prize@operamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MAPFRO SECURITY SERVICES SL." <coperate_prize@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:47:04 +0100
Subject: Your Urgent Confirmation is Required!






MICROWORLD INTERNATIONALL AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAM!

AVDA DE AMERICA 32 4A, 81007, BARCERLONA.



PAID & PENDING PAYMENT RELEASE STATUS NOTIFICATION: ACCT # 27669390 /PIN # 69173475.


You have been approved for a total pay out of $ 920 000, 00. (Nine Hundred and twenty Thousand Dollars) only.

Date: 25 th Oct. 2007.
Ref Nr: MSTL/CN/2628/YT
Batch Number: 26/386/UTR.
Serial Number 25742-86
Coupon No. MSTL-146478972197


Attention Estimated Winner:

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!

Dear Winner,

Microworld international e-games organizers and Co sponsors, MICRO WORLD AWARD PROMOTION, officially bring to your notice the final draw result of the end of the year 2007 MICROWORLD AWARD LOTTERY DRAW wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex. Consequently, the amount of $ 920, 000.00 Dollars is lying in a dormant account in your name as unclaimed prize and will be reflected on the billing statement for immediate payment release by following secured FAST transaction below as instructed.



In our data file we discovered that your email is one of the 45 lucky winners in a lotto draw held on the 15th of Oct. 2007. Most recently this foundation set`s up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this, the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to promote music, theatre-art and literature projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners as part of our middle yearly lottery Draw prize award.

Your email ID identified with Coupon No.MSTL-146478972197 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a consolation cash prize of $ 920, 000 00 (Nine hundred and twenty thousand Dollars only). The MICRO WORLD INT´L LOTTERY GROUP has approved a payout of your (Nine hundred and twenty thousand Dollars only). As your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.

Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consolation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer SÑR RAMOND MAXWELL, who has been assigned to assist you process your prize payment through our paying bank. Winners are advised to call payment facilitating and processing office. MAPFRE SECURITY SERVICES SL, This is a telecommunication online award payment and your prize payment fell under our Spanish processing department. Please quote your Reference numbers in all correspondence. 3. Winners must send their winning information, names, address, telephone numbers and means of identification (international passport or driver's license numbers) to the processing officer to process immediate payment of their prizes.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th of NOVEMBER 2007. After this date all funds will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed


4. Note that winners who are below 18 years are automatically disqualified.

Call official payment facilitating agency board on the below provided telephone numbers; - Foreign Services Management, Payment processing and Release Order Dept. Systems Information finance and Security undertakings.


MAPFRO SECURITY SERVICES SL.
ADDRESS: PACEL DE ARROYOMOLINOS 15, 28391-Madrid Spain.
TEL: 0034-652 506 177.
FAX: 0034-940 468 548.
E-MAIL: coperate_prize@operamail.com

CONTACT NAME: SÑR GUTI MAXWELL. (Prize processing officer in charge)



You are advised to provide him with the following information:


Names:
Phone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
coupon Number:

Winners are advised to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements. Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming MICRO WORLD INT´L AWARD PROMOTION Email-games. Copyright © 1999-2007 PlasmaNet Inc. all rights reserved. E&OE. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without the expressed written permission of PlasmaNet Inc. is prohibited. PlasmaNet Inc.


Regards,

Mrs. JANNETH HOPKINS.
Lottery Group Coordinator.

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NB: In accordance with the MICRO WORLD INT´L PROMOTION AWARD E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential and 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 e-mails have been scanned for viruses and content by security software. This ORGANIZATION reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its network.
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<Copy Right © 2007 MICROWORLD INT´L AWARD PROMOTION. All Rights Reserve>

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