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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:
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +34667302512 (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.
  • bononacional@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "bononacional@aim.com" <bononacional@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:10 +0900
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: CALL FOR CONFIRMATION

Bono Loteria Nacional
Madrid-Spain
https://www.bonoloto.com
Ref No: LN/88-5/0008.
Batch No: 009/9876SP.

Dear. Sir/Madam,
Your email address has won EUR 920,000:00 (Nine Hundred and Twenty Thousand
Euro
Only) in the Bono Loteria Nacional Sweepstakes, conducted on the
7th day of April 2008, sponsored by consortium of software promotion
companies.

For more informations/procedure of your winning claim, you are advice to
contact
our processing department with the details below.

Mr.Jose Rajoy
Processing Dept.
Tel: +34-667-302-512
Fax: +34-911-013-815
Email: bononacional@aim.com

Kindly provide them with the following details for further processing of
claims

1. Name in full
2. Address
3. Nationality
4. Age
5. Sex
6. Occupation
7. Telephone, Mobile and Fax
8. Present Country
9. Amount won.

Your Winning Details.
Ref No: LN/88-5/0008.
Batch No: 009/9876SP.

Sincerely Yours,
Mrs. Clementina Antonio
Sweepstakes Coordinator.
Copyright © 2001-2008 Bono Loteria Nacional

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