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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.
  • processingmanager301@yahoo.de

Fraud email example:

From: "EuroMultimedia Award" <euromultimediaaward1@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:59:42 +0000
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION.

EURO MULTIMEDIA LOTTERY AWARD,NETHERLANDS
ALFONSTRAAT E46,1002 BS AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT. MULTIMEDIA PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD..
REFERENCE NO- EMLW/413--905/444d
BATCH NO- 274--340--888.

ATTENTION: AWARD NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you of the release of the EURO MULTIMEDIA LOTTERY
AWARD held on the 21th of Oct 2005. The results were released on the 26th
of Oct 2005.Your email address was attached to ticket number
543-908-321-675 with serial number 842-790-241-671 that drew the lucky
numbers of 60-32-90-43-32, which consequently won the lottery in the 1st
category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum of payment of Euros
1,000.000.00(ONE MILLION EURO)only in cash. credited to file
with REFERENCE NO- EMLW/413--905/644. This is from US, 20,000.000.00
(TWENTY MILLION EURO) in cash among the 20 participating finalist playing
6,000 fulltickets.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now deposited with our Security Company and insured in
your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep
this award from public notice untill your claims has been
processed and the money remitted to your account as this is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming of unwarranted taking
advantage of this program by participants as it has happened in the past.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 25,000 names from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North and
South America, Middle East and Africa .This programme is sponsored by
EUROPEAN UNIONS/BILL GATES and WORLD INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
ORGANISATION TO PROMOTE and ENAHNCE the use of SOFT WARE IN
THE GOBAL WORLD. We hope your lucky name will draw a bigger cash
prize in the subsequent programs. To begin your lottery claims , please
contact your processing manager. DR RICHARD WILLIAMS.

AND his e-mail address is processingmanager301@yahoo.de,
You are hereby advice to send all your information to the processing
manager provided that you are the user of this mail.Remember, all prize
money must be claimed not later than two
weeks from the day you receive this notification.
Any claim not made before this date will be returned to the EUROPEAN
UNION MINISTRY OF FINANCE of such country. And also be informed that 1%
of your lottery winning belongs to your agent because they are the
company that bought your ticket and played the lottery on your name.NOTE
this 1% will be remitted.AFTER you have received your winnings prize
because the money is insured in your name already.
Remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every
correspondence with our processing manager.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform
your processing manager as soon as possible.
once you get intouch with your processing manager,A form will be
giveing to you to fill by your processing manager.
and this also, will enable him access your claim for you immediately.
Once again, from all members of our staff. and thank you for being a
part of our EURO MULTIMEDIA LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAM.
we wish you continued good fortunes.

Sincerely,
MRS,JUICY ROD.
PROMOTION MANAGER

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