419 scam: Yahoo! <4yahoo.online@gmail.com> ((((((( Congratulations )))))))) Your e-mail Won our Lottery

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "yahoo lottery inc" (no such lottery exists)
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.
- +447035922890 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo! <4yahoo.online@gmail.com>
Reply-To: y08-08@live.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:58:59 -0800
Subject: ((((((( Congratulations )))))))) Your e-mail Won our Lottery

*[image: YAHOO! MAIL]* ** *[image: Yahoo! News -
Lottery]<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/CMP=229/ELEM=15106477/UID=712/U=112002491/L=lid:15005416/E=5YL7W5wjwCWp5dFuSTQO/D=mail/M=287466.7609950.8481748.7383539/A=3160424/S=24244634/SIG=140ljkr5t/*http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/set_cstheme?.page=p2&.partner=&.intl=us&.done=http%3a%2f%2fmy.yahoo.com%2findex.html&.src=my&v9>
*
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** <http://yahoo-email.com/a/hBFb7bQAo0kxwAo4Da4A1$QTe.AhAvS-yt/ynu5>
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*This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP £SIX HUNDRED
THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING (Gbp £**600.000.00) for the YEAR 2008 Lottery
promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of
the new YAHOO CLASSIC MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch
onton to the whole wild world.*

*Yahoo! arrange and gather some of all the e-mail addresses of the people
that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo! **e-mail
addresses and** few from other e-mail providers. We only select EIGHT (8)
candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System
(EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of
the people selected as lucky numbers:(-02-06-21-34-35-49-(46-)"bonus no 46.
which subsequently won"you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus
bonus.

*
**
*PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
*
*We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to London due to we
have 3 lucky winners in United Kingdom so that you can be cleared and paid
simultaneously there. You are to contact our UK Location Claim Office on or
before your date of Claim.

*
**
**
*Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 21 days from date
of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.

*
**
*Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (21 days) will be forfeited.

*
**
**
*These are your identification numbers:*
**
*KTU Number......................../9023118308/03
Serial Number .....................................5368/02 *
*Ticket Number.................... 5647560054188 *

*To claim your prize money,you are required to contact the our customer
service department with these information through this contacts below.

*
**
*Email:* *y08-08@live.com *
*Phone: +44-703-5922-890*
*Fax: 440-870-288-5153

*
**
*You are therefore advised to send the following information below to e-mail
address and a copy to us below in order to facilitate them and process the
transfer of your fund with the appointed bank or the delivery company.

*
**
*Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to her
immediately:

*
**
*Personal Information*
*1. Full name..................*
*2. Country....................
3. Contact Address........... (P.O. Box is not allowed)
4. Telephone Number.........
5. Marital Status..............
6. Occupation..................
7. Age.........................*
*8. Sex.........................*
*9. Country of orgin................. **

* ** <http://yahoo-email.com/a/hBFb7bQAo0kxwAo4Da4A1$QTe.AhAvS-yt/ynu5>
***Congratulations once again. *
*Yours in service, *
*[image: Yahoo! UK & Ireland]*
*<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/_javascript:ol%28%27http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/__javascript:olhttp://www.freelotto.com/offer.asp?offer%253d43761%2526amp;FID%253dfa7d27913658;%27%29;>
*
**
<http://uk.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12qu0qq60/M=200071086.201311413.202609531.200683327/D=ukmail/S=150508014:MWA1/Y=UKIE/EXP=1170199257/A=200568500/R=0/SIG=113r8k6rk/*http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/landing>
All-new Yahoo! Mail<http://uk.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12qu0qq60/M=200071086.201311413.202609531.200683327/D=ukmail/S=150508014:MWA1/Y=UKIE/EXP=1170199257/A=200568500/R=1/SIG=113r8k6rk/*http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/landing>
Now you can automatically know when new mail arrives. *Try it
now*<http://uk.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12qu0qq60/M=200071086.201311413.202609531.200683327/D=ukmail/S=150508014:MWA1/Y=UKIE/EXP=1170199257/A=200568500/R=2/SIG=113r8k6rk/*http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/landing>
We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
*KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.* **
*NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH,
DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN
WARNED STRICTLY! *

** See what's happening on Yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/> today. *Do you
Yahoo!?* <http://yahoo-email.com/a/hBFb7bQAo0kxwAo4Da4A1$QTe.AhAvS-yt/ybang>

*If you have questions or wish to claim your prize money kindly contact us,
+447035922890 **see theinstructions at the body of this message*

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