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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • hondaclaimsagent_011@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "HONDA COMPANY UK " <postmaster1@afchambers.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:23:32 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!

HONDA COMPANY UK
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON,
LONDON.

FROM: THE PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS DEPT.

DEAR WINNER,

We are pleased to inform you of the release, of
the long awaited
results of the HONDA MOTOR INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTION PROGRAM held on the
15th
of July 2006, Due to mix up of numbers, the
results were released on
the
19 of July 2006. You were entered as dependent
clients with:
Reference Serial Number: {deleted}...
that drew the lucky
winning number, which consequently won the
sweepstake in the first
category, in four parts. You have been approved
for a payment of
500,000.00 GBP
(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) in cash and a new
Honda FR-V credited to
file Reference number: (deleted) which
is deposited with
Finance & Security Company in your favor as
beneficiary and covered
with
HIGH INSURANCE POLICY. This is from a total cash
prize of five million
euros shared among the ten international winners
in first categories.
Along with a New Blue Honda FR - V Car.
Congratulations!!!!! All
participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from
50,000
(Fifty thousand) names of email users around the
world, as part of our
international promotion program. Due to mix up of
some names and
addresses, we ask that you keep this award
personal, till your claims
have been
processed and your funds remitted to you. This is
part of our security
measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted
taking advantage of
the situation by other participants or
impersonators. To begin your
claim, do file for the release of your winning by
contacting your/our
accredited agent:

Mr Richmond Samuel (Foreign Transfer Manager and
Fiduciary agent)
ROYAL TRUST AGENCY BV. HONDA CLAIMING SECURITY
AGENCY.
Email: hondaclaimsagent_011@yahoo.co.uk

He is your agent, and responsible for the
processing and transfer of
your winnings to you. Your Security File Number
is (deleted)(keep
personal). Remember, your winning must be claimed
not later than (30th
July 2006). Failure to claim your winning/ fund
will be added to next
10,000.000 GBP and Car International Lottery
Program. Furthermore,
should there be any change in your address, do
inform your claims agent
as
soon as possible. Once again Congratulations.

Yours Sincerely,
MS LISA FARRAH
(Lottery Coordinator/Director)
HONDA MOTOR COMPANY/LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR HONDA
LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL AN
AFFILIATE OF HONDA UK





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