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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic delivery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "diplomatic delivery" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • info_euroguild@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Edvard Bernhand" <edvardbernhand@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Reply-To: info_euroguild@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:00:27 +0100
Subject: Award Prize Winner/respond


OPERATIONS INSURED THROUGH
EUROPEAN WORLDWIDE LOTTERY GUILD INC
17 Fitzroy street London w1t 4bQ
TEL: 44 7040124352 FAX 44 07024078547
Email: <info_euroguild@yahoo.co.uk>
Our ref: EU/Lottory/DEE/INTER/033/06 DATE: 24TH OCT 2006
WINNING NOTIFICATION:-Audit Control Number: E45762A ID WIN N0:66 56 89 00 23 44
CASH PAYMENTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY VERIFIED AND FORWARDED WITH OUT TAX
DEAR, BETTY MORAN

All attempts to locate you concerning your winning notification, or by telephone were impossible, therefore we write our third correspondence to you and for the last time.
to inform you that further to our letter dated September 29th 2006, respectfully we have informed you as one of our winnings on our readers digest lottery computer balloting that choose and selected you as our jack pot sweep stark winner under the prize winners of our B1-annual sponsor fund allocation of US$ 475,587,245 (FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
We are yet to receive any response and our net work server indicates that you are selected as a winner yet to claim to your funds as a jack pot sweep starker with a win amount of $ 3,200,000.00 (Three Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only)

In other to avoid fraud/fraudulent claim and abuse of the privilege giving by the sponsor's of this program you the win will have follow the claiming instruction of the OVER SEA SERVICE AGENT IN OTHER TO PROCESS YOUR CLAIM as the lottery company have experience impersonation claim and lose of funds from fraudsters so the test of claim which will only be the procedure.

It is very much important that we have you contact the (OSA) Over sea Service Agent, for the processing of your win and this will take (10) working days to process after the receipt/confirmation of this letter, you are directed to contact Mr Marvin K.George on Tel N0:(44) 702 4078540 Fax 44 702 4077960 for confirmation and more information on HOW YOU MAKE YOUR CLAIM IN MOST CASE YOUR PAYMENT IS MADE BY CAHIER CHEQUE THIS PROVISION HAS BEEN MADE FOR DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY WHICH THE AGENT WILL ADVICE ON THE PROCESSING CONDITION OF ISSUANCE/COLLECTION, PLEASE OBSERVER ALL PROTOCOL.

All prize winners must claim winning not later than 18 working days from the date of this letter upon receipt note that if claim is not made within the above stipulated time all win funds will be retuned to HM Treasury, be informed that 5% tax of your winning amount will belong to Union Security Company as commission, affiliated directly by the Financial Service Authority (FSA).

Upon the receipt of this letter endeavour to contact the above officer and mentioned your above winning ID reference to avoid unnecessary delays be advice that you can contact the checking US agent on Fax: 845 231 6108, All awards/winning will either be despatched to claimant at the specified address by the special delivery agent/diplomatic unless informed otherwise by the appointed agent. This is the last correspondence.

Sincerely yours

MR EDVARD BERNHAND
VICE PRESIDENT



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Overseas subscribers agent is a governments-licensed lottery service agency, which has been marketing national lotteries to overseas subscribers for over 19 years acting as agents on behalf of the lottery players around the world, OSA makes it possible for you to enter government lotteries such as the European lottery ,European union Spanish Guild Elgardo ect...

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