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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 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.
  • euroconsultuno@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo Internet Award Winning <infomailminings2008@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:42:02 +0100
Subject: Congratulation!!!



YAHOO INTERNET AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION=09
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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 FEBRUARY:2008 Yahoo Lottery Winners Promotion which is organiz=
ed by yahoo.messenger.com [http://yahoo.messenger.com/] every month. YAHOO=
! Collects all the E-mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo, among=
the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger. Twelve Winners are select=
ed every month through electronic balloting System without the winner appl=
ication. We are congratulating you for been one of the lucky selected Winn=
ers. All participants were selected through a computer electronic ballotin=
g system drawn from Nine Hundred Thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Au=
stralia, America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of=
our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lo=
ttery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational c=
ompanies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the com=
munities where they have operational bases. Further, more your details (E-=
mail ID) falls within our Spanish representative office in Spain, as indic=
ated in your play coupon and your prize of $920,000.00 USD will be release=
d to you from this regional branch office in Spain. We hope with part of y=
our prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 =
Billion International Draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZEThese are your identifi=
cation numbers... Batch number.....................Lwh 09445Lotto number..=
.....................Lwh09446Winning number...................Lwh09447 To =
begin your claims, kindly contact the Fiduciary Agency; EUROPEAN CONSULTS =
S.A.Contact Person: DR. TOMDEHLI GERALD and=20
MRS. VERONIKA AUDEO
: euroconsultuno@aim.com [mailto:euroconsultuno@aim.com] TEL: +34 664 709 =
351 FAX: +34-91-790-54-58 You are required to forward him with the followi=
ng details: 1. FULL NAME2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN3. PRESENT ADDRESS4. SEX5. DAT=
E OF BIRTH6. AGE 7. OCCUPATION8. TELEPHONE NUMBER9. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)10.=
MARITAL STATUS11. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER12. THE MO=
NTH 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 money. Congratulations=
once more!! For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this info=
rmation confidential from the public notice until your claim is processed =
and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to a=
void double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by=
non-participant or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely,Dr. MOORE (PHD)L=
OTTO CO-ORDINATOR.**The Yahoo.com [http://yahoo.com/] staff*
http://www.yahoo.com [http://www.yahoo.com/]*=09


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