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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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)
  • "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • simsteves01@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: guiness lottry <guinnesslottry05@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <simsteves01@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:42:05 +0100
Subject: We happily inform you about our (Guinness National Lottery Program)




GUINNESS CUSTORMERS PROMOTIONdv-2007 programSt. Christo Road (ecowas)
Guinness PLC, West Africa.
FINAL NOTIFICATION.
We happily inform you about our (Guinness National Lottery Program)held on the27th of November 2007, which you enterd as a dependent client and finally took the 1st position in our second (2nd) category winners, that falls within the west africa region. Your email was attached to the ticket number(44-40-23-777-01) which made you a winner of (us$500,000.00) and your name being recorded in our guinness world book of record as the 1st lucky winner of the year 2007. You have been approved the sum of US$500,000.00 which will be sent accross to you immediately.


All emails are selected randomly through a computer ballot which subsequently won you the sweeptake of guinness internet web lottery.


This is part of our security mearsures put in place to avoid double claiming or a situation where unwanted person(s) would be taking negative advantage of this promotions, thereby impersonating in order to claim another persons winning prize.


Here is our fiduciary agent responsible for your the processing / release of winnings for all Second Category winners where your winning falls into:


AGENT:SIMONE STEVE
EMAIL: simsteves01@yahoo.ca
GUINNESS CLAIMS SECURITY AGENT.

You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your GUINNESS CLAIMS OF CERTIFICATE.

Fullnames / Residential address / Phone number / Occupation / Sex / Age / Present country / Marrtal status.

ONCE AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Yours sincerely...

grace hills

below is MR JAMES GATES
(BONAFIED SPONSORER)






(Guinness Online International Promotions Unit.)






(Secetaries )


Miss Basheera Abubakar Mrs Caro Smith

(Co-coordinator).







Past winners.



GUINNESS CUSTORMERS PROMOTION.




WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
KEEP THIS INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL AND BE CAREFULL OF SCAM MAILS
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