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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "clearance certificate" (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • promoinquiry@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • promoinquiry@plasa.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: intenet lottery <corporate_promo@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 05:15:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: NOTIFICATION RESULT


CORPORATE INTERNET PROMOTION ANALYSIS UK AND PLASA INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
Customer service: 27 Tooley Street London,
SW19 5NX.United Kingdom.
Tel/Fax: 44 7040120409, 44 8701352649


REF NUMBER: 142441062332/CIPAU
BATCH NUMBER: 234123-027/006


ATTN: BENEFICIARY,



We are pleased to inform you as a result of our recent international lottery promotion draw held on the 26th May 2006. Your email address name attached to ballot ticket number 242306 with serial number 413214-PII drew the lucky number 06-14-23-24-32-41, which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category.


You are therefore been approved for the grant payment of US$ 250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars) credit to the file REF#: 232529124124/CIPAU. This is from a total prize of US$25 Million share among the (100) One Hundred International winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 20,000 companies and 25,000,000 individual email addresses from environmental analysis, chambers of commerce brochures and worldwide web sites search engines as part of our international promotion programs.

This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Plasa service provider, banks, various corporate organizations and eminent personalities to encourage equity, awareness and computer literate and to eradicate poverty worldwide. We hope with a part of your prize, you will utilize and educate others the importance of computer and Internet use. We’re appealing to every individuals and organizations to support our next lottery promotion of Euros 50 Million International Lottery. Due to the mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask you to keep this winning news private from the public notice until your claim has been processed and your prize sum remitted to you as this is a part of our precautions to avoid double claiming prize and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by scammers.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

To claim your promotion grant prize, you must fill and submit the required information below and contact the administrative office and request for your NOTARY (Clearance Agent) in charge of the release and payment.

Contact: promoinquiry@yahoo.co.uk OR promoinquiry@plasa.com

REFERENCE NUMBER:
BATCH NUMBER:
NAME IN FULL:
DATE OF BIRTH:
OCCUPATION:
LOCATION:
TEL/FAX NUMBERS:
EMAIL ADDRESS:

Remember, all prize must be claimed not later than one month after the date of this notice all funds would be returned as unclaimed and remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every of your correspondence with your clearance officer.


Best regards,

DR. ELIZABETH R.J.
(Lottery Coordinator)

CAUTION * {BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE ARE NOT ELIGIBLE}

IMPORTANT NOTICE
Please be informed that NON RESIDENTS of United Kingdom and Indonesia will be required to procure an Affidavits of Lotto Claim clearance certificate prior to award payment policy of organizers/European and Asian Gaming Board as will be required by the Clearance office. Please be aware that your Paying Authority would Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by the Clearance Office.

DO NOT REPLY TO ME REPLY TO ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE

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