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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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.
  • +447031941826 (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.
  • nizamuictskzr@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:55:41 +0530
Subject:


account.deck_msn1@live.com
forester@chartermi.net

They want the courier charges they give me one indian Account officer
account no
Account Name: Asif Sayed
Account No : 30424670969
Pan No : BYQPS6764Q
Bank Name : S.B.I
Branch : VAKOLA
Batch number.401978G
Reff number.BTD/976/06
Ticket Number564 75600545-188.
Dear Sir,
i very happy to hear that i won the prize but i cant understand how can i
get my price International cargo courier company they are asking the service
charges £350 without payment sevice charges they will not ready to delivery
my parcel, But now a days many frowds happing so i request you sir if
they parcel courier when i got my parcel then i will pay.

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---------- Subject: Claim Your Prize** Reff Number.BTD/976/06
To:

We happily announce inform you that you have won a prize money of
Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500.000.00) for
online Sweepstakes International program held the month of october 2008
Lottery promotion which is organized by MICROSOFT ONLINE PROMOTION AWARD in
collects of all the emails addresses of the people that are active online,
among the millions that subscribed to Hotmail only select TEN people
every six month,as our lucky winners through electronic balloting and
this is the System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for
being one of the (Ten lucky winners) selected.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.401978G
Reff number.BTD/976/06
Ticket Number564 75600545-188.

To file for your claim, please contact our
Fudiciary Agent with the information below,
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Name : Eng.Larry Nelson
E-mail:account.deck_msn1@live.com <E-mail%3Aaccount.deck_msn1@live.com>
Telephone: + 447031941826

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1.FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:..........................
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: ...............................
3.DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:............................
4.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS: .................................
5.NAME <http://5.name/> AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:....................
6.SEX: ...............................................
7.OCCUPATION: ........................................
8.MARITAL STATUS: ....................................
9.NATIONALITY: .......................................
10.Your Reference and Batch number:...................
11. AMOUNT WON:.......................................

Congratulations once more.
Faithfully,

Mrs.Suzanne Moore,
Copyright (c) microsoftonlinepromoaward Ltd. 2008.
Online Co-ordinator.

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