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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:
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "united state dollar" (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 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.
  • wolfhans52@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "msowen Gazeta.pl" <msowen@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:23:19 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON.


[image: Yahoo!
Lottery]<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIGj3beaqm/M%1521.4110776.5321503.4005595/D=lottery/S%942828:HEADR/Y=YAHOO/EXP44952688/A27261/RSIGq6fuoc8/*http://lottery.yahoo.com>
* *
*THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. **INC *

*YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC
Barley House Harold Road** *
*Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom.*

MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD

*Dear Winner**, *
* *
* YAHOO PATRONAGE BONANZA LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION *
*
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Yahoo May Patronage
Bonanza held on the 1/5/2008. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number
883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267,which consequently won in the
1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out
of $1,000.000Usd.(One Million United State Dollars).

The reason this lottery was organized is to thank the numerous public
including users and non-users of YAHOO MAIL for the financial benefitsTHE
YAHOO CORPORATION have recieved as a result of their Patronage this
Financial month.

To file for your claims, please contact our Processing Lottery Agent:
*
* *
*Mr Wolf Hans
44 Moorfields London EC2Y 9AL UNITED KINGDOM
Email: wolfhans52@yahoo.com<http://us.mc461.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wolfhans52@yahoo.com>
*
* *
*with the following Particulars.*
**
*Security Code:** AL/FEB/XX01 *
***Ref:** 4758961725
**Batch:** ALLINC 70564943902/188*
*Winning no:** YAHGB2701/LPR.*
**
*Past winners round the world with full of excitment
*
**
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SECURITY
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you.

NB*YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to
yahoomail, msn, hotmail, aol, altavista, and others online, among the
billions that subscribe to us only Fifty people will be merge for winnings.
we only select fifty people every Month as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for
having been one of the lucky people that won for this Last month.

(Thanks for contributing to our Financial Success)

Yours Sincerely,

<http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tailored.com.au/uploaded_images/jacqui-oatley-793009.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tailored.com.au/labels/marketing.htm&h&8&w!3&sz&hl&start5&tbnidoaHOirIMK13qM:&tbnh3&tbnw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbarclays%2Bpremiership%2Blogo%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN>

Dr.Mrs Dorryn Horgan
Yahoo! 2008 Lottery program Manager

NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION MAIL BOX. MAILS SENT TO THIS
MAIL BOX ARE NOT MONITORED AND CANNOT BE REPLIED. PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO
YOUR PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT AS INSTRUCTED ABOVE
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