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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Sk Adams" <sk_adams505@msn.com>
Reply-To: sk_adams506@excite.com
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:07:54 +0000
Subject: LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION !!!.

GLOBAL LOTTO,
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
UK LONDON.
LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION !!!.

Sir /Madam ,

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of winners of the
GLOBAL LOTTO/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number 013-2646-2004-477, with serial number A025-04 drew the lucky numbers
39-13-34-85-56-42, and consequently won in category C.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,500,000.00
in cash credited to file REF NO. VLI/62- B773525551.This is from total prize
money of US$20,500,000.00 shared
among the fifteen (15)international winners.

All participating e-mail addresses were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 300,000.00 e-mail addresses from Australia, Africa,New
Zealand, America, Asia, Europe,USA and North America as part our
International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually in
which your e-mail address won in category C.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with Natwest Trust Bank Plc London. Due to the
mix up of some numbers and names,we ask that you keep this award strictly
from public notice until your claim has been processed and your winning
claim

successfully.

All we want from you are as follows:

(1) Your Name.
(2) Your Telephone and Fax Numbers.
(3) Your Contact Address.
(4) Your Age.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address,do inform your
claims officer as soon as possible. We expect your reply soon as to proceed
further. All prizes must be claimed within three months. NOTE: If you are
under the age of 18, you are automatically disqualified for
this star prize.


Sincerely,

S.K ADAMS,
ONLINE COORDINATOR
GLOBAL LOTTO/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS.
44-7031944216 MOBILE


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