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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.
  • +447045774499 (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.
  • denmal_lotto@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3adenmal_lotto@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "powerball_lottery Gazeta.pl" <powerball_lottery@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:30:20 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION, YOU HAVE WON $945,000.00 US DOLLARS


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-3- 4-22-23-26-28 Bonus 8, in our National Lotto 6/49 lottery draws
held on Sat, May 31, 2008 - Lotto 6/49 , in Essex United Kingdom. All
participantswere selected randomly from World Wide Web site Through computer
draws system and extracted from over 10,000,00 companies and personal e-mail
addresses (THIS IS COMPUTER GENERATED) 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 customers to play our
lottery.

You have been approved to claim a total sum of NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (945,000.00USD) in cash credited to file
EAAL/9080118308/04. Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall within
our African booklet representative office as Indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this, your $945,000.00USD would be released to you by an
accredited commercial Bank in Africa. To file for your claim, contact our
Payment Office in London Immediately you read this message for quick and
urgent release of your prize to you.

Contact information is as follow:
Name:Dennis Malone
EMAIL:denmal_lotto@yahoo.com <EMAIL%3Adenmal_lotto@yahoo.com>
Tel:+447045774499

YOU CAN READ ABOUT OUR LUCKY WINNERS IN THE BELOW LINK
http://powerball.com/powerball/pb_stories.asp
Sincerely yours,
Brown Lee (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