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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.
  • prosegursec@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "benefit_euclaim@terra.es" <benefit_euclaim@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:14:31 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: EURO MILLION AWARD 2007.



EURO MILLION AWARD 2007.
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
Euro Millones Lottery International
Email Address draw on the 3th april 2007 due to the mixture of
names and address the result was released on the 5th april 2007.
All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000

others as a category A winner in the EuroMillones Lottery
Draw.Consequently, you have therefore been approved
for a total pay out of US$950,000:00 (Nine Hundred And Fifty
Thousand United States Dollars Only).The following particulars are
attached to your lotto payment order:
Batch No: WNTO/7416/VA/ES
Ticket No: TWMT/1800/806
Lucky No: 07-13-31.54-640
Serial No: MUOTI/82536
Ref No.ES/037/11/06/MD

2. You must contact the appointed agent with your Full Names, Contact
Telephone Numbers (Home, Office and Mobile Number and also Fax Number)
via email to process the immediate payment of your prize.
Prosegur Security Agency
Dr,Mark Burdell
Address: Mario Cabre Sin Numero,
46820 Madrid -Spain .
E-mail:prosegursec@yahoo.es
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Janet Goodman(Mrs),
Promotions Co-ordinator
The Euro millon day Lotto Company







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