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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: "julia" <julia_lee@myway.com>
Reply-To: julialee@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:47:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: HELLO


Sir/Madam,CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON -£1,228,704.80We are pleased to inform you of the result of Euro Millions, which washeld on the FRIDAY 10th November 2006. Your e-mail address attached toe-ticket number: 10 19 34 45 47 (03-06 ), with Prize Number (match 1):106000007 drew a prize of £1,228,704.80 per winner. This lucky draw camefirst in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake.You will receive the sum of £1,228,704.80 per winner from our authorized bank. Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the time limited placed on the payment of your prize: £1,228,704.80, we advice thatyou keep all information aboutthis prize confidential until your funds:£1,228,704.80 have been delivered/transferred to you by our bank.You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with therelease of your funds to your person. This program has been abused severally in past mainly in RUSSIA &amp; NETHERLANDS, so we are doing our best toforestall further occurrence of false
claims and internet Fraud, this advice complies with the Anti-Fraud section 2,sub section (iv) of the procedural manual of the funds disbursement agreement existing between the Bank and the ITALIAN Government.This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 8,000 spectators.Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number 10 19 34 45 47 (03-06 )was selected and; it came out first by an e-ballot draw from over 250,000 e-mail addresses (personal and corporate e-mail addresses).This program is sponsored by CFI to compensate faithful Internet suffers around the globe. Congratulations for becoming one of the few luckywinners.In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim, You are requested to contact your claims clearance officer Mr LARRY BONDS , to assist you with the processing of your winnings and subsequent payments.your £1,228,704.80 prize, you will have to contact our agent for further verification and authenticity of your claims as the sole beneficiary
byproviding the details below:MR. PAUL BELUSHI.EMAIL: euromillion70@yahoo.com.hkNAME:ADDRESS:EMAIL:COUNTRY:PHONE NUMBER:AGE:OCCUPATION:Congratulations.Yours Faithfully,JULIA LEE.Coordinator: Euro Millions

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