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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.
  • lotto1089@gawab.com

Fraud email example:

From: "LUCKYSTAR E_GAME PROMOTION" <luckystaronline_02@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:08:19 +0000
Subject: AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

FROM:
LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER
AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING


Dear Consolation Prize Winner,
This email confirms that you have been notified of by LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES
By Netherlands of your email lottery winning for 2006 LuckyStar
Lotto-Wheel E-Games held Jan 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email Ref number
which was selected among the 45 Lucky consolation prize winners. Your
email ID identified with REF: 35149/337-5247/LMO and was selected by
Electronic Random selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000
different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-Games. Your email
ID included among the 50,000 different email addresses where submitted
by our partner international email provider companies.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LMO
Batch Number: 2637/2312-LNI/2006
Ticket Number: 967666233
Lucky Amount: 1.500, 000.00(0ne million five hundred thousand Euros
only)

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by
contacting the lottery claims Processing Officer with your winning
information provided above.

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Peter Van Smith
Email:lotto1089@gawab.com
Tel:31613795118
Fax:84752074031

Congratulations Once again from all our staffs on your consolation
prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming LUCKYSTAR
E-GAMES.

Yours truly,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
(Lottery Coordinator)

All response should be mail to:-lotto1089@gawab.com

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