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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a fake lottery scam (6 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Shell Texaco" <lottoteam@shelltexacoonlinedraw.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:40:32 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON!!!

 

                                                          

                                                                                          

Good News!
Congratulations, we are pleased to inform you of the
result of the Lotto Nigeria Lottery promo held on JULY 18,2005.
You have just won USD$500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars) in the satellite software email lottery in which email
addresses are picked randomly by software powered by the Internet through
the world wide website. Your email address was among those randomly
chosen. This is part of our opening bonanza.
This promo is jointly sponsored by Shell Petroleum
Development Company, Chevron Nigeria Limited and Texaco Overseas. Your
email address, attached to ticket number 27-18-27-54 with serial
number 71-41 drew the lucky numbers 49-10-77-10-12-82, and consequently won
the lottery in the"A" category with batch number 30478E and reference
number 46-29-4B.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
out of USD$500,000
(Five Hundred Thousand Dollars). All participants were
selected randomly from world wide website through computer draw
system and extracted from over 500,000 companies and individual
email addresses all over the world.
You are among the 50 Lucky winners in the world that
won in the 'A' category.
To avoid impersonation, you are advised to keep your
winning information strictly confidential till your claim has
been processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you
deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous
participants.
To file for your prize, please contact your fiduciary
claiming agent:
Name: Dr. Harry lukeman
Email: (harry_lukeman@walla.com)
Phone 234-80-325-569-13
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, always
quote your
ticket/lucky numbers in any correspondences with us or
our designated
agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staff
of Lotto Nigeria
for being part of our Promotional Email Lottery
program.
Sincerely,
LOTTO NIGERIA TEAM     

 

 

 

 

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