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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • hamiltonshaw02@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Alya Ahmed Khalifa Masoud Shaikhan Al Hannaee (H00019943) "
<h00019943@hct.ac.ae>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:41:42 +0400
Subject: PRIZE AWARDS: REPLY TO hamiltonshaw02@hotmail.com


NINGBO AOLE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO.Ltd
Address : Cixi Fuhai Town Industrial Zone
Republic of China
Phone :0574-63563328
63561208
63567913
Fax :0574-63569811
Date :23nd.May. 2008

:::______YEAR 2008 EMAIL PRIZE AWARDS________:::

Dear Winner,
We at Ningbo Aole global office likes to officially congratulate you for
the draw that was just held by our company which featured you as
the second place winner. Our company holds promotions each year just to
promote our global publicity and reputations as we plan to exploit
more corners of the world with our highly valued productsline.This
promotion is just one of various ways we are presently using to achieve
this global vision of ours.

Your email address with MICROS ID ( PLD-29103-LGT-901GH-9JL ) was luckily
drawn to be this year's second place winner of a Brand New 2007 BMW x5 car
and a cash prize of $485,000 United States
Dollars.This money and gift we believe will enable you make some impact in
the society and possibly invest in our company in the near
future.

You are hereby requested to contact our agent for more details
on our promotion in particular before taking further actions to claim
your prize.Ensure you contact DR.Hamilton Shaw who is
our claims official in Europe.United Kingdom and can understand your
english and some european languages.See details of him below.
Name : Dr Hamilton Shaw
Email : hamiltonshaw02@hotmail.com
Address : Embark Lane 23, London. United Kingdom

When contacting the claims agent you should include the following if
youmust get a response from him;
*** Your Full Name
*** Address
*** Phone number
*** Age
*** Gender
*** Occupation
*** Winning email and Micros ID

We know you must be excited and very happy about this news you have just
received from us and the truth is that we are doing this to put smiles
into homes and hearts of people worldwide.The only thing you will need to
pay to this company is to kindly place our company logo on the BMW that
you have just won for a minimum of 6months.
Special greetings from the entire family of Ningbo Aole Worldwide.
Signed,
Mrs, Li Haicang (Sec.)
________________________________________________________
*NOTE** You must be 22years or older to claim. Late response is
not accepted.Misconduct and non adherence to instructions leads to
prize termination

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