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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",000,000" (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.
  • infr_lot001@hotmail.fr
  • osasv1@yahoo.com
  • info_yahmedis@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: infr lot004 <infr_lot004@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <info_yahmedis@sify.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:27:46 +0000
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?INFO_MAIL=FE?=





INFO MAILþ
From: infr lot001 (infr_lot001@hotmail.fr)
Sent: Wed 10/24/07 8:53 PM
To: osasv1@yahoo.com














YAHOO INTERNET EMAIL LOTTERY


CONGRATULATIONS!
22/10/2007
Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 100 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the year 2007.

All 100 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada. Australia. United State.Asia. Europe. Middle East. Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EUROS
(750.000.00EURO )
* This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies and the WORLD BANK as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more, your details(e-mail address) falls within our Africa representative office in Ouagadougou Burkin faso West -Africa as indicated in your prize of ( 750.000.00euro) will be released to you from this regional branch office in OuagadougouHOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZEThese are your identification numbers.
BATCH NUMBER:100074-0854/SZ
REFRENCE NUMBER : RN/BF0158/009OUA
LUCKY DRAW NUMBER: 10-07-19-04-77-41

NOTE: You are to call or Contact the claimng agent where your award winning falls in Africa centre,Ouagadougou Burkina faso, whose email address and telephone number is given below WITHIN SEVEN DAY OF RECEPITION OF THIS WINNING MAIL so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money.
MEDIS MICHEL BURKINA FASO


PB 12 AVENUE K'WAME KRUMA OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
CONTACT PERSON:MR. FREDERICK BEYOUG
Tel: +226 70 01 51 16
Fax: +226 50 32 31 71
: info_yahmedis@sify.com
Telephone lines are open between the hours of 8:00am to 19:30pm.Monday -Saturday
*As part of our securoty protocol you are to quote this security code to your claim agent . This to prevent scam YLAW/OCT/XX91
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you, this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,





Dr. Morris Flores Mrs.Frederick Beyoug
(Co-coordinator). (Claim Agent)


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