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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.
  • +447024025850 (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.
  • loregroup1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aloregroup1@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "vincent natt" <nattvincent4@mailbox.hu>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:55:35 -0700
Subject: MESSAGE


POWER BALL INTERNATIONAL
BONUS PROMOTION.
Home Office
Direct Communications Unit
2 Marsham Street USSW1P 4DF
www.powerball.com
WINNING
NOTICE
Dear Winner,

This is to notify you that your e-mail address was tagged to ticket number:
B 9564- 7560 -4545 -110 with serial number
046560 drew the winning numbers,5 27 30 32 46 49 Bonus 9 in our weekly
National Lotto 6/49 lottery draws held on Tuesday
20TH May , 2008 Lotto 6/49 United Kingdom. All participants were selected
randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws
System and extracted from over 10, 000, 00.this lottery is our monthly
promotion. You need not to buy a ticket before you

Win,This program is a free business promotion we use to encourage our
customer to play our lottery.

You have been approved to claim a total sum of Nine Hundred and fifty
Thousand United States Dollars (US$950,000) in
cash credited Commercial bank in African file eAAL/9080118308/04. Please
note that your lucky winning numbers fall in our
West African region, in view of contact our London Payment Office
Immediately release of your prize to you.

Contact information is as follow: - reply to our London payment office
Name: Mr. Nat Vincent
EMAIL:loregroup1@hotmail.com <EMAIL%3Aloregroup1@hotmail.com>
Tel:+447024025850
Simply write back his office with the following information listed below to
enable him effect the release of your prize.


(1)WINNING NO:
(2)YOUR FULL NAME:
(3)FULL RESIDENTIAL CONTACT:
(4)TEL NUMBERS
(5)OFFICIAL AGE:
(6)NATIONALITY:/CONTACT ADDRESS
(7)SECRET ZONAL CODE NUMBER: 406


YOU CAN READ ABOUT OUR LUCKY WINNERS IN THE BELOW LINK
http://powerball.com/powerball/pb_stories.asp)
Sincerely yours,
Monica Robert (The prize announcer representing power ball International
Bonus Promotion)
Copyright(c) Multi-State Lottery Association. All Rights Reserved.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam