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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.
  • +447031846085 (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.
  • mr.m.g.taylor@googlemail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: John Hawkingson <xooo--oooxoxx@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mr.m.g.taylor@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:56:49 +0000
Subject: Thank You






EXXONMOBIL INTERNATIONAL
5th Floor East Wing,
Commonwealth Centre
28 Victoria Street,
Leeds, LS53BX,
United Kingdom.

CLAIM VERIFICATION/ NOTIFICATION

We are extremely pleased to inform you of the result of our monthly
random draw of the Exxonmobil/Google cash give-away which took place on the 15th day of May, 2009.
This award is based on a selection of winners who have used Google to access various hosts. Your e-mail address with serial number 725-958-627-409 and Serial code 409-07 was picked in the random selection of ten addresses.

You have therefore been approved to recieve a cash sum of 50,000.00 (FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS).
This is from the total cash prize of 500,000 Thousand Pounds, shared amongst ten (10) recepients in this category.
Of this amount, you are expected to donate ten percent which will be
your contribution to Exxonmobil research and development centre to
aid in Bio and alternative fuels research.

Please contact our claims and awards department through our agent,
Mr Mark Taylor via the phone number and e-mail address below;

Mark Taylor
+447031846085
mr.m.g.taylor@googlemail.com


Your reference number is HW725-958-627-409.
Please indicate your reference number on any response mail sent to our agents for easy identification.
You have 10 days to respond to this notification.

Sincerely,

John .B. Hawkingson,
Online Co ordinator.

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