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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.
  • +447024011466 (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.
  • james.cambel@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MICROSOFT ONLINE PROMOTION <arodsep@adsl.tie.cl>
Reply-To: james.cambel@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:12:44 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION-------Ref No:BTD/976/06


Microsoft Promotion Award
20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10,
United Kingdom.
Ref No: BTD/976/06
Batch No: 401978G

Dear Lucky Winner

WINNING NOTIFICATION-------Ref No:BTD/976/06---Batch:401978G
The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organized
a Sweepstakes marking (18th JULY, 2008) the middle of year anniversary,
we rolled out over 100,000, 000.00 for our beginning of yearly
Anniversary Draws.The selection was made through a computer draw system
attaching personalized email addresses to ticket numbers.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket numbers
008995727495 with serial numbers SBTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky
numbers 14-21-25-40-40-47(21) which subsequently won you
(?1,000.000)(One Million Great Britain Pounds)
as one of the jackpot winners in this draw.


To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to send the below
informtions to your Claims/Fiduciary Agent.

NAME:.....
SEX:........
AGE:........
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER....
ADDRESS:..........
OCCUPATION-
NATIONALITY:......
COUNTRY..........
Batch No.........
Ref No............

File your winnings by sending the above informations to our
Claims/Fiduciary Agent by Email for the processing of your winnings.

MR JAMES CAMBEL,
Email:james.cambel@yahoo.com
CALL :+44-702-401-1466
***Reply to this email only***

Mrs.Gloria Bent
(Microsoft Award Coordinator).

Note:CHOOSE MEANS OF RECEIVING YOUR WINNINGS.
1.COURIER DELIVERY-
2.BANK WIRING

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