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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:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • claimsofficer021@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: " European Champions League" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:58:07 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: WINNERS NOTIFICATION 2006 AWARD


POWERBALL LOTTO. Bv
POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2006,
Date:8th 09 2006
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Prize Winner,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE
Europe/ America private international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors,
POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of
the final draw result of the 4th 08 2006 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game
which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in
The UNITED KINGDOM.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out
prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation
seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.
Its major aim is to promote music, theater, art,literature,projects in the
social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science,
research, and higher education.
We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email
coupon number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize
winners Your email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was
selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries
from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your
email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by
our partner international email provider companies. You have won a
consolation cash prize of US $ 1,000,000.00 (One Million US Dollars)
only.
The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your
consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official
Payment Agency Board.
Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and
provide additional information and processes for the claims of your
consultation prize. For due processing of you r winning claim, please
contact the DPU Information Officer Mr Peter Fox who has been assigned
to assist you.You are to contact him with the following details for the
release of your winnings.
Contact Person: Mr.Peter Fox.
Telephone : 0044 794 454 5394
Contact E-mail:claimsofficer021@yahoo.com.hk

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation
prize
winning, we hope you will part take our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO
-wheel Email-games.
Regards
Mrs Anita Williams
(Group Coordinator)
Record Winning $365
Powerball Jackpot Claimed by
8 Co-Workers!
Eight workers from a ConAgra ham processing plant in Lincoln, Nebraska,
stepped forward to claim the record $365 million Powerball jackpot from
last Saturday night, February 18th. The seven men and one woman said
they and others often pooled their money together when the jackpots reached
$40 million or so. The winning numbers were 15, 17, 43, 44 and 48, with a
Powerball of 29. The Power Play multiplier was 4. (more...)

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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam