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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447031911171 (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.
  • redemption.center@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • kuyt00@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Felix Martins <fhanks08@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: redemption.center@gawab.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:41:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YAHOO! INTERNET AWARD




You won $520.000.00 USD Yahoo! Mail Congratulates You!

YAHOO! INTERNET AWARD

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $520.000.00 USD

Yahoo Mail! gives the I.R members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as one among the 12 top winners to get cash prizes. We hereby inform you that you have won a prize money of (Five Hundred And Twenty Thousand US Dollars) ($520,000.00) for the month of (JANUARY 2008). Yahoo Internet Promotion Program is organized by yahoo.messenger every month.

YAHO O! collects all the mail id of all the yahoo users online, among the millions that subscribe to the world email we only select twelve people draw every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner application,

We congratulates you for been one of the selected winners for the month of January. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted monthly.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our Asian representative, as indicated in the electronic balloting and your prize of $520,000.00 USD will be released to you from this regional branch office in Africa. After due verification/confirmation.

These are your identification numbers...

Batch number. : 7056490902/188
Ref number : L5W220507
Winning No: GB8701/LPRC


To begin your claims, kindly contact the Fudiciary Agent Dr. Melissa Kuyt on redemption.center@gawab.com or kuyt00@yahoo.com You are required to forward this office with the following details:

1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.EMAIL ADDRESS
9.TELEPHONE NUMBER
10.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
11.WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON
13 AMOUNT WON

NOTE: Do remember to quote your identification numbers in contacting your agent and they will direct you on how to process and claim your winning prize money and for security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from "public notice" until your claim is processed and your prize released to you . This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once more!!.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Felix M. Martins Phd.
Tel : (+44) 70319 11171
Yahoo! Inc. Lotto Co-ordinator


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