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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • year@yahoo.ca
  • third_lottery_draw06@fastermail.com

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?DAVID=20BECK?= <third_lottery_draw2006_year@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: mrterrywilliams1@fastermail.com
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 18:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION


J'ai une nouvelle adresse de courrielVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : third_lottery_draw2006_year@yahoo.ca




Hello,

This is to notify the user of this webmail email address id, that the user mr david, has just won a third place prize in this all year webmail lotto, your webmail adress came out third in this all year 2006 webmail and microsoft gateway bill lottery draw which was held in machester london.

Out of the millions of webmail adresses worldwide your adress came third, this game is sponsored by webmail in conjuction with bill gate microsoft int, to compesiate every 4lucky users of webmail id world wide, so the third prize goes along with $200,000 [Two hundred thousand dollars] cash prize and a one week all paid trip to one of the most beautiful city in the world paris in france.

So to whom ever is operating this address id in which this mail has been forwarded to should have to act fast in redeeming hes or her prize before 4days of receiving this mail, so all u have to do is to contact our webmail district manager through this mail id- third_lottery_draw06@fastermail.com

or call 447024092962

He is to highlight u on immidiate step you have to take, so as to redeem your price and your ticket were ever you are in the world.



Bye and stay bless.




message from webmail with conjection of microsoft lottory.





- DAVID BECK

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