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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "asian pacific promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united state dollars" (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)
  • ",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)
  • "united state dollar" (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.
  • +66846825169 (Thailand, probably a mobile phone)
• 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.
  • asialott25@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • asialott@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <asialott25@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:08:33 +0000
Subject: SEE YOUR BONUS FOR USING INTERNET





ASIAN PACIFIC PROMOTION





ASIA
PACIFIC INTERNET LOTTERY ORGANIZATION



CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Asia
Pacific Internet Lottery Organization

Bangkok
Branch Office

Address: 17 Bangphi Avenue

Bangkok 10200 Thailand


Asia Pacific Internet
Users Lottery Organization announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in
the ongoing 12 Years Asia Pacific internet
users lottery Award of the Year Held on 7th July 2008.



All 25 winning
email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international
emails from Canada, Australia, United States, 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 ONE
MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $1, 000. 000.00 USD )



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 Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( $1, 000.000.00 USD ) will
be released to you from this regional branch office in Bangkok Thailand.



Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your EMAIL ADDRESS. Due to mix up of
some numbers and email address, we ask that you keep this award from public
notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Bank
Draft have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part
of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of
advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.



HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE THESE ARE YOUR
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER:



Ticket
number.....................115-12874000-09

Serial number.......................513977-1

Lucky number...................00-05-12-38

Ref number...................A.PEGS/2367114/13




To begin your lottery claims, Please contact
our Asia
Pacific Coordinator as follows:



Name: Mr. Bongchai Chanaporn

Email asialott25@gmail.com
, asialott@gmail.com

Tel: +66-8-4682-5169



You are to send your
wining identification numbers and fill this form below for
processing of your winning prizes. Congratulations once more!!



1. FULL NAME:.............................

2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:..............

3. PRESENT ADRESS:..................

4. DATE OF BIRTH:......................

5. OCCUPATION:..........................

6. TELEPHONE NUMBER:.............

6. FAX NUMBER:..........................

7. MARITAL STATUS:...................




Remember, all prize money must
be claimed not later than two Weeks after notice. After this date all funds
will be returned as unclaimed.



CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and
thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program. We wish you
continued good fortunes.



Yours Sincerely,

Mrs, Jelena
Kai

Secretary Asia Pacific Internet Users Lottery Organization.

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