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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:

• 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.
  • +22997328982 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "HECTOR CHENG" <hectorcheng3@ig.com.br>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 22:29:23 +0200
Subject: Contact Rev. DUKE HILLARY Today.


Attn: Dear Winner.

The Beijing-China Olympic Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of
our E-mail address ballot lottery international program by PRC China held on
the 22nd of May 2008. Your mail account have been picked as a winner of a
lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars
US$850,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO.:

BCL/74-A8023077995-2008.


Contact Rev. DUKE HILLARY,

African/Europe Representative.

Telephone: +229 9732 8982.
E-email: bjcholympic_lott2008@live.fr


THE BENEFICIARY/OWNER OF THE WINNING EMAIL OF THE FUNDS SHOULD COMPLETE
THIS CLAIMS FORM.


1. FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:
2. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
3. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
4. PHONE/FAX NUMBERS:
5. NAME/ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:
6. SEX:
7. OCCUPATION:
8. MARITAL STATUS:
9. NATIONALITY:
10. REF NUMBER:
11. AMOUNT WON:

Note: All validations should be made to Mr. Thomas Hillary via e-mail:
bjcholympic_lott2008@live.fr as any email sent to any other address will
not
be attended to.

Sincerely,


Mr. Hector Than Chang.
Online Coordinator,
GAMELOT GROUP,

Operator of Beijing-China Olympic Lottery.

Anti-fraud resources:

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