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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "20 craven park, harlesden" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +27783451610 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • advocatelarrymooreclaimagent@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • larrymoore2@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "award notification" <awardnotification@mobimail.mn>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:36:03 +0200
Subject: Congratulation! Congratulation! Awarded Notification


MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD







Microsoft Award Team

20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom

Ref : BTD/968/05

Batch: 409978E





CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!







Dear. Sir/ Madam,





The prestigiou s Microsoft and AOL Lottery has set out and successfully
organized a Sweepstakes marking the Easter 2008 celebrations. We rolled out
over US$40, 849,564 for the Easter 2008 celebrations Draws. Participants
for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web
hosts which we enjoy their patronage.



The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching person
alized email addresses to t ic ket number s. If you ignore this massage, you
will defiantly regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest
Internet companies & in effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains
the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta
test.





Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to reference and
ticket number 0248795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080348302/08 and drew
the lucky numbers 14-22-25-39-40-47(28) which subsequently won you $ 720,
000.00 (Seven Hundred & Twenty Thousand United States Dollars Only ) as one
of the 5 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore w on the entire
winning sum of $ 720, 0 0 0.00 (Seven Hundred & Twenty Thousand United
States Dollars Only) The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted
in < SPAN >Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 30th o f March,2008. These
Draws are commemorative and as such special.





Please be informed by this winning notification to file your claims
immediately. You are advised to make contact to your referred agent who
shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of
your winning prize by our African payment offshor e bank. To file for this
cl ai ms, Pl ease Contact your delivery agency in the contact information
below:





DELIVERY AGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION:



Name of claim agency firm: Sweepstakes Award Client Services

60 Great Ormond Street ,

Johannesburg , South Africa .

Name: Mr. Larry Moore

Phone: +27 78 345 1610

E-mail: advocatelarrymooreclaimagent@gmail.com<http://ca.mc588.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=advocatelarrymooreclaimagent@gmail.com>

E-mail: larrymoore2@hotmail.co.uk<http://ca.mc588.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=larrymoore2@hotmail.co.uk>



You ar e advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details
to avoid unnecessary delays and complications:



1. Name In Full:................................

2. Address:.....................................

3. Nationality:.................................

4. Age:............ .............................
5. Sex... .......... ..................... . .... ...
6. Occupation:..................................
7. Marital Status:..............................

8. Phone......... ..............................

9. Fax:........................................

10. Wining References :

E, TOTAL AMOUNT

Won.................... .... ... .............

Ref /Ticket No: ................................. . ..

Serial No: ............................................

Winning No:........................................


We dedicate our special thanks & gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.
We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season.


Note: You have One week from the date of this publication to claim your
prize or you may forfeit your winnings. In compliance with the sponsoring
bodies', you are to make a remittance of a part of your winning fund, not
lower than 10-percent, after receiving your allocation to a charity
organization of your choice in your country.



Thank you for being part of our commemorative Easter 2008 Draws.



DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO. KINDLY
CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER DIRECTION



Mrs. Bryan McDonald
Microsoft / Sweepstakes Promotion Coordinator

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