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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.
• 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.
  • +34699273971 (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.
  • euroconsultorg@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • consultorg@aim.com
  • ltinf@aim.com
  • @aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo Internet Award <infomailwinnings_12.2008@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:54:43 +0100
Subject: congratulation!!!



YAHOO INTERNET AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION=09
=20
YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY [http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login=3F/ym/Compose=3FTo=3D=
arabtrans@arabtrans.com]
CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $920,000.00!=20
Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is rando=
mly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prize=
s from us. We are pleased to inform you that your E-mail ID has won prize =
money of (Nine Hundred And twenty Thousand US Dollars) ($920,000.00) for t=
he month of November Yahoo Lottery Winners Promotion which is organized by=
yahoo.messenger.com [http://yahoo.messenger.com/] every month. YAHOO! Col=
lects all the E-mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo, among the =
millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger. Twelve Winners are selected ev=
ery month through electronic balloting System without the winner applicati=
on. We are congratulating you for been one of the lucky selected Winners. =
All participants were selected through a computer electronic balloting sys=
tem drawn from Nine Hundred Thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Austral=
ia, America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our =
international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery=
was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational compan=
ies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communit=
ies where they have operational bases. Further, more your details (E-mail =
ID) falls within our Spanish representative office in Spain, as indicated =
in your play coupon and your prize of $920,000.00 USD will be released to =
you from this regional branch office in Spain. We hope with part of your p=
rize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billi=
on International Draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZEThese are your identificatio=
n numbers... Batch number.....................Lwh 09445Lotto number.......=
................Lwh09446Winning number...................Lwh09447 To begin=
your claims, kindly contact the Fiduciary Agency; EUROPEAN CONSULTS S.A.C=
ontact Person: DR. DARLINGTON BASSMAN and=20
MRS. VERONIKA PASTOR=20
: euroconsultorg@aim.com [http://us.f386.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose=3FTo=3Deuro=
consultorg@aim.com] [http://us.f386.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose=3FTo=3Deuroconsu=
ltinf@aim.com] [http://us.f386.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose=3FTo=3Deurokonsultinf=
@aim.com] [http://us.f386.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose=3FTo=3Deurokonsultinf@ozu.=
es]TEL: +34 699 273 971 FAX: +34 911 849 996 You are required to forward h=
im with the following details: 1. FULL NAME2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN3. PRESENT =
ADDRESS4. SEX5. DATE OF BIRTH6. AGE 7. OCCUPATION8. TELEPHONE NUMBER9. FAX=
NUMBER (IF ANY)10. MARITAL STATUS11. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOT=
TO NUMBER12. THE MONTH YOU WON...13. AMOUNT WON... As soon as you contact =
the Agent, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize mon=
ey. Congratulations once more!! For security reasons, we advice all winner=
s to keep this information confidential from the public notice until your =
claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our sec=
urity protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage o=
f this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincere=
ly,Dr. MOORE (PHD)LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.**The Yahoo.com [http://yahoo.com/] s=
taff*
http://www.yahoo.com [http://www.yahoo.com/]*=09


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Bis 50 MB Dateianh=E4nge=3F Kein Problem!=20
*http://www.digitaledienste.web.de/freemail/club/lp/=3Flp=3D7* [http://www.dig=
italedienste.web.de/freemail/club/lp/=3Flp=3D7]

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