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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • pastorgerld080@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: "panafricanlottery commission" <panafricanlotterycomm@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:20:53 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS LUCY STAR WINNER!!!!!!!!!






PANAFRICAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC

PANAFRICAN LOTTERY INTL INC
Head Office:Barley House
Harold Sutton,Greater London
Sm1 4te
United kingdom.

Branch Office:Garki,Abuja
Nigeria

PANAFRICAN LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

Attn:
We happily announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc programs
held on the 10th of october 2005 in London.Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky
numbers: 31-6-2613357,which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st
category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND AND FIFTY THAUSAND US DOLLARS ($250,000) for the month of
october 10th 2005 lottery win promotion which is organized by Yahoo LOTTOREY
INTL INC .

Every month.

YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of every of our subscribers with us all
over the world more than 900 billions of email addresses among the billions
that subscribes to yahoo mail, aol, hotmail,msn,altavista,and others we
select peoples email addresses every Month through electronic balloting
System without the winner applying, amongs all, only five people will marg
for winning we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky
people that won for this month and your prize will be remited to you from
first bank of nigeria plc lagos.
.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of
Claim.,Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement

Yahoo Lottory Prize must be claimed no later than 20 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 and retreived

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788

These numbers are your winning identification numbers,that you will
send to your claims agent,PASTOR GERLD BROWN. at this email contact:
pastorgerld080@yahoo.ca for identification and details of claim.

You are therefore advise to send the following information to
the Cliams Agent to facilitate them to process the transfer of your fund
without delay
.1.Full name
2.Bank details(where your prize will be transfered
3.Contact Address
4.Telephone Number
5. Marital Status
6.Occupation
7.Date of Birth
8.cell phone number.

NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL
CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENCIAL DISQULIFIES
YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE.

Congratulations!! Oncemore.

Yours Faithfully,
PASTOR GERLD BROWN
LOTTERY CO ORDINATOR

Anti-fraud resources:

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