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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:

• 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 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.
  • goforgoldbeijingpromo@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: promotion.08@mchsi.com (goforgoldbeijingpromo@Gmail.com )
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:27:00 +0000
Subject: SAMSUNG GO-FOR-GOLD BEIJING OLYMPIC PROMOTION

Samsung Beijing Olympic Go-For-Gold Promotion ! Samsung Beijing Olympic Go-
For-Gold Promotion ! Samsung Beijing Olympic Go-For-Gold Promotion ! ! !
Samsung Beijing Olympic Go-For-Gold Promotion Held in NIGERIA.

Special Notification;

During the coarse of the Samsung Beijing Olympic Go-For-Gold Promotion we came
across your Email Address and luckly your Email Address was selected during an
open ballot lottry held in Nigeria.
As a prowd sponsore of the Beijing 2008 Olympics held in China we have decided
to award you with the sum of $900,000 U.S.D
Inorder to claim your prize you will need to send a mail to the claim
department at goforgoldbeijingpromo@Gmail.com starting your Fullname, Age,
Sex, Country, Address, Poster Code and Occupation, most importantly you will
also need to send your Account Name, Account Number, Bank Name and Swift Bank
Transfer Code.

Your reply is urgently needed.

Signed by Mr. Ibrahim Okarfor the Promotion Manager.

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