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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "yahoo/msn lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +447045776723 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • claimsdept_office20@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kkkkk1@comcast.net
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:46:29 +0000
Subject: COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON / NOTIFICATION LETTER..

Yahoo/Microsoft Award Team
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te
United Kingdom.

Compliment of the season.

Dear Winner,
YAHOO / MSN WINNING NOTIFICATION


The prestigious Yahoo/Microsoft and aol has set out and sucessfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the year 2007 anniversary, we rolled out over 500,000.00 email addresses for our end of year Anniversary Draws.Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers.

If you ignore this, you will regret it later.Yahoo/Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program,Yahoo/Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 56475600545 188 with serial numbers 5388/02 and drew the lucky numbers 31-6-2613357 which subsequently won you 750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and fifty thoudand Great Britian Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw.

You have therefore won the entire winning sum of 750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and fifty thoudand Great Britian Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 22nd October, 2007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim,Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her SettlementCentre.Yahoo/MSN Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.

Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved.To file for your claim send details of claim to:

Oversea Payment and Release Order Department CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY
AGENT for official record and payment files.CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY
AGENT CONTACT INFORMATION

Contact person: Mr. Glen Johnson
( winners Directorate Office )
Email: claimsdept_office20@yahoo.com.cn
:claimsdept_office20@yahoo.com.cn
Tel: +44-704-577-6723

These numbers are your winning identification numbers, which you will send down to your claims agent, alongside with your information listed below:

Serial number 5388/02
Draw lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357
Ticket number: 56475600545 188
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788

FULL NAME:
SEX:
AGE:
COUNTRY:
RESIDENCIAL ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
OCCUPATION / POSITION HELD:
PHONE NUMBER:
FAX:

As indicated in this winning Notification.Thank you for being part of this promotional award program.Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.Thank you for being part of our commemorative new year Anniversary Draws.

Dr. Johnson Bake O (PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
Yahoo/Microsoft® Mega Promotion
The Yahoo.com staff

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