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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!

Fraud email example:

From: eurocredito securities <eurocreditosecurities@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:30:00 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: INFORMATION NEEDED FROM EURO CREDIT SECURITY S.A


Attn:Madras House,

We recieved your mail in our office this morning, Regarding your lottery promotion winning in Euro Million Lottery Commission.

Yes that is real not Spam. But we are waiting for the information which you have to send to our office to enable us start your processing.

Yes we have all your information in our computer here but before we can do any thing as well. You have to forward us your own information so that we can check with the one we have in our computer to know if it is the same ok.

As sson as we recieved this information from you we check and start your processing imediately as soon as we finished your processing our Paying bank where the lottery office deposited your money with your name will contact you for the transfer of your winning to your choice account in your country after verification has done.

So fill this information and send it to us back so that we can process your winning imediately.

INFORMATION NEDED,

1, Full Name:
2 Full Adress :
3, Age :
4, Sex :
5, Country :
6, Phone Number :
7, Fax nUmber:
8, Batch Number :
9, Refrence Number :
10, Amount Won :

As soon as we recieved this information from you it will enable us start your processing before our paying bank (LA CAIXA BANK MADRID ESPAÑA) will contact you for the transfer of your winning ok.

Regards,
Juan Carlos (Insurance Officer Euro Credito Securities S.A)
Tel: +34 651 09 627
Fax: + 34 916135672
website :www.eurocredito.es



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