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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2348053803460 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Texaco/Shell Grant Award" <.com@mlm.nitk.ac.in>
Reply-To: eventprocessing-texacoshell@live.com
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:40:01 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Texaco/Shell Grant Award

Texaco/Shell Grant Award
Texaco/ Shell Petroleum Complex
Freegame House,
26/28 Morani,
PMB 2418,
Lagos, Nigeria.


The Texaco/Shell Grant would like to notify you that you have been
chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients that
won the
cash award of Three Million Five hundred thousand United State
Dollars($3,500,000.00) for the month of may 2008 Lottery promotion
which
is organized by TEXACO/SHELL GRANT INC. TEXACO/SHELL GRANT, collects
all
the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the
millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and other domains, we
only
select Ten people every Month as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for
being
one of
the people selected. The objective is to make a notable change in the
standard of living of people all around the Universe (From America to
Europe, Asia to Africa
and all around), probably like in the next 20yrs.

You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of
Claim,Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Centre.Texaco/Shell Grant Prize must be claimed no later than 10 days
from date of
Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any
prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.


These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................8109102XN
Reff number.......................7035447XN
Winning number...................426978


These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to
contact the events manager, send your winning identification numbers
to
him,to enable him verify your claims.How ever you will have to fill an
submit this form to the events manager for verification & direction
on
how you can claim your winning fund.

1. Full name..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Personal Mobile Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............
8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation.............
10. Company................
11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

As soon as you have filled the form above, you are to send it to the
Event Manager, Contact information Below:
(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name: Mr.Tino kayode.
E-mail: eventprocessing-texacoshell@live.com
+234-8053803460

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. mary Adodo
(Texaco/Shell Grant Award Coordinator).



-- Sent at 08:45:02 on 08/19/08 through NITK (http://www.nitk.ac.in/) Email Gateway . AV scanning & Spam checking are done on this mail --

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