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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:

• 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.
  • sunpromo@mail.com

Fraud email example:

From: ANA <bennard@zwallet.com>
Reply-To: sunpromo@mail.com
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:17:51 +0200
Subject: NOTICES NOTICES


SUNPROMO E-MAIL LOTTERY PROMOTION
FROM:SUNPROMO AWARD DEPT.
REF: DPA/0099-333091/03
BATCH: 444/019/GPD

RE: EMAIL WINNING CONFIRMATION NOTICE

We are glad to inform you that your E-mail address appears as the
confirmed Winner of our secound SUNPROMO email lottery program
held on the 26 September 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 9999773256-786 with
Serial number 0008-75 drew lucky numbers 09-78-11-21-32-45, which
Consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been
approved For a lump sum payment of ten million seven hundred thousand euro(EURO 10,700,000,00). CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This promotional program takes place three time every year and this is the first one of the
year All participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000
companies and 50,500, 000 individual email addresses and names from
all over the world.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.We ask
that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has
been processed and your money remitted to you. Remember all winnings must
be claimed not later than 20th of Octorber 2005. After this date all unclaimed
funds will be included in the next stake.
To file for your claim or for further details, please contact our agent

NAME: Mr Daneil Lopez
E-MAIL: sunpromo@mail.com

In respect of our commitment towards helping the less previledge, we ask that you voluntarily
contribute 1% of your Global winnings to any charity organization you desire at your
convinience.Congratulations once more from our members of staff.

Mrs. Lopez Ana
Global Winning co-ordinator

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