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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.
• 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.
  • +447035927858 (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.
  • islandbankltd@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: yank ge <yankge2@msn.com>
Reply-To: <yankge@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:06:41 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS"""""





CHINESE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE LOTTERY DRAW

Towards creating general mass awareness and follow ship of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, The Chinese Olympic Committee in conjunction with BLUELAKES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS are organizing a monthly lottery programme.Your e-mail address won in the 2nd dip and that has won you the lump sum of British pounds 2.5 Million .

All winners including your humble self are required to use a part of their winnings for the development of ANY grassroots’ sport {s} in your locality or for a charitable purposes in your locality that will bring hope to the downtrodden. Your winning information, fell under our European payment center,PLEASE CONTACT THE PAYING BANK NOW IN LONDON, your REF # is :-EUTTA/2457/2008/008

Also send the following information to them,so that they can start in earnest the payment process of this winning prize sum of British pounds2.5Million in your name and favour,they are:-A}Your Full Name{s}

B}Your contact street address:-

C}Your nationality{Your country of origin}:

D}Your contact telephone numbers:

E}Your age:

F}Your occupation:

PLEASE CONTACT:--

Bank Name: Island Bank Ltd.
Bank Address: 24 Davies avenue road Uk
City London.
P O BOX 61835
Telephone:+44-703-592-7858
Email: islandbankltd@yahoo.com

Congratulations
Yours Sincerely.

Yang Ge

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