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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: prize_ 26 <prize_26@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <claimming_agent2008@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:24:17 +0100
Subject: !!!ONLINE NOTIFICATION OF WINNINGS!!!!



UNITED KINGDOM IN COLABRATION WITH GOLD MINING COMPANY.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD LONDON MILLION INT & NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO,12th AVENUE KWAME NKRUMAH 01 BP WINNING/AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION WINNER- REF No: LP/26510460037/03. BATCH No: 24/00319/IPEAttn: Dear Lucky WinnerYour e-mail address attached to the Batch N0:24/00319/IPE with
Serial number: 410-32659,
Ticket Number 6325698-44596-222
Draw lucky Numbers 4014-236985744-596
which subsequently won you a prize in the category B.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 8500,000Euros(Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros) in cash credited to file Ref N0: LP/26510460037/03. To file for your claim, kindly contact our certified and accreditedClaims Agent with the information below:************************************************************************************************************Name: Aliko SmithE-mail:claimming_agent2008@yahoo.frClaims Processing Agent
*************************************************************************************************************You are advised to provide him with the following informations:
1.Full Names:2.Telephone/:
3.Age :4.Nationality:Yours Faithfully,Mrs Rita Jones
_________________________________________________________________
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