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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • grac_adam_s@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: YAHOO! INTERNET LOTTERY <gra.adams@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: garce_adam_s@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 03:25:12 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: **Yahoo Congratulate You For Being Their Lucky Winner In May 2008**














&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You won £500 000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!


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YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON £500 000!






Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of&nbsp;24 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won prize money of (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling (£500,000) for the month of May, 2008. Lottery wins promotion, which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every month.
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YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on internet, among the millions that subscribe to Online we only select&nbsp;Twenty-four people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
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This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
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Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £500,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.
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We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
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HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers..........
&nbsp;
Batch number.......................Lwh09445
Lotto number........................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447
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To begin your claims, kindly contact our fiduciary agent:&nbsp; grac_adam_s@yahoo.fr
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You are also required to forward her with the following details:
Her name is Grace Adams.
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1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADDRESS
4. SEX
5. DATE OF BIRTH
6. AGE
7. OCCUPATION
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER
9. FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10. MARITAL STATUS
11. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12. THE MONTH YOU WON...........................................................
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As soon as you contact her, She will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money.
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Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program... Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
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For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
Please be warned.
&nbsp;
Sincerely,
SHERRY WILLIAMS.
Lott Co-ordinator.
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Note. It is important that you keep your winnings very confidential as we have received several bogus emails from person using winners identity to press for claims. We have paid several importers who successfully represent themselves as winners probably because they got into winners identity. It is&nbsp;important you heed to this advice.

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