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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024043458 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • reveustace13@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "rave ustace" <raveustace14@gmail.com>
Reply-To: reveustace13@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:20:46 +0100
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATION_YOU_HAVE_WON_=A3284,500!?=


*You Have won £284,500! Yahoo! Mail
congratulates you! * [image: Yahoo! Mail] *
Messenger *
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=arabtrans@arabtrans.com>

*(((((CONGRATULATIONS))))))*

*YOU HAVE WON £284,500!*
**
*YAHOO! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your **account is
randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash
prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize
money of (Two
Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand Five Hundred British Pounds) (£284,500) of the
year, 2008. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com
every month. *
* *
*YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo
messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only
select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting
System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one
of the people selected.All participant were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from
Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted
annually.*
** *This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies 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 British
representative office in United Kingdom and United State of America U.S.A,
as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £284 500 GB Pounds will
be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.*
* We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for £1.3 Million international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
* *These are your identification numbers.......*
**
*Batch Number...............YPA/07-43658
**Reference Number.......2008234522
Pin number.............1207*
**
**
** *To begin your claims, kindly contact our fiduciary **company **agent at
this email address: *
**
*You are required to forward him with the following details:
*
*CLAIMS DEPARTMENT CONTACT INFO; U.K BRANCH
CLAIM AGENT (REV. EUSTACE TIME)
TELEPHONE : +447024043458 OR +447024078015 *
*E-MAIL :* reveustace13*@ya*
<reveustace@ymail.com>*hoo.com*<reveustace13@yahoo.com>
*#123 STOCKPORT ROAD, LONGSIGHT MANCHESTER M60 2DB- UNITED KINGDOM*
**
**
*1.FULL NAME:................................*
*2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:.................*
*3.PRESENT ADDRESS:...................*
*4.SEX:............................................*
*5.DATE OF BIRTH:..........................*
*6.AGE:............................................*
*7.OCCUPATION:.............................*
*8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:.................*
*9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY):.................*
*10.MARITAL STATUS:.....................*
*12.BATCH NUMBER:........................*
*13.NATIONAL I.D:........................*

*As soon as you contact the Claims Agent ,he will advise you on what to do
in order to get your prize money.Congratulations once more!! 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 programme by non-participant or
unofficial personnel*
** *Yours Sincerely, *
*[image: rebecca_fox_maybe]*
* *
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**
*Mrs. Rebecca Fox*
*LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.*
*The Yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/> staff Yahoo <http://yahoo.com/>*

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