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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • danlevigreg90@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AFRO EUROPEAN SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION <aesp01@excite.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:37:34 -0500
Subject: YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED:contact our agent for your prize money.

AFRO EUROPEAN SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION
9 Chaucer House
Churchill gardens
London, SW1V 3DW
United Kingdom.
16th Floor SABC Radio Park Building Henley Road
Auckland Park, ZA-2006 Johannesburg South Africa.
Ref: win/oct102/06
Batch:05/10/wa34

                         AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the Afro european Lottery Promo
International programs held on the 13th of july 2006 in
JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA. Your email address attached to ticket number :1456 with serial number :5555/04 drew the lucky number
3-1-174, which subsequently won you the lottery in the first category.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of  €2,000,000.00(Two million euros) in cash credited to file
wlp/23456/05. This is from a total cash prize of  €60,000,000
Million Dollars,shared amongst the first thirty (30) lucky winners in
this category.In view of this,your €2,000,000.00(Two million euros ) would be
released to you by our redemption centers.
Our agents will immediately commence the process to  facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
All participants were selected randomly from World wide Website through
computer ballot system extracted from over 1,000,000
companies and  individuals emails.This promotion takes place annually.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements. Please be warned.

To file your claims, please contact our agent:

MR.GREG DANLEVI
Universal Trust Inc.
Email: danlevigreg90@myway.com

Note that all winning must be claimed not later than
two weeks of receiving this notification. After this date
all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake.
To avoid unnecessary delay and complications, Please
quote your reference/batch numbers in any
correspondences with us or our designated agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and
staffs of this program!!!
Congratulations once more from our members of staff
and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.

Sincerely,
Wim van den Assem
Executive Director
AFRO EUROPEAN SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION

 

 

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