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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: "myifo there" <myinfothere@msn.com>
Reply-To: markcollins@compaqnet.fr
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:20:59 +0000
Subject: ONLINE INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

ONLINE INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
Dear Lucky Winner,
 
We are pleased to inform you of the draw (#988) of the ONLINE INTERNATIONAL

E-MAIL LOTTERY, Online International Lottery Program held on Monday 24 October,

2005.
Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter from our new

java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web

.Participants were selected from the registered email addresses in the Public

Key Server -- Index ,it was drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names in this

batch ,participants were taken from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New

Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our

international promotions programme conducted three times annually to encourage

prospective overseas entries.We hope with part of your prize awards, you will

take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.
Your email address attached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial

number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 01-02-18-25-34-45, which subsequently

won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to

claim a total sum of $4000000 (four million us dollars) in cash credited to

file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize  shared among the first

Six (6) lucky winners in this category.
Your prize award has been insured and is ready for claims. To begin your claims

therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited

 fiduciary officer for the Lottery within a period of 10 days (date of this

email inclusive) for the processing of your winning and remittance to your

designated bank account after all statutory obligations have been

satisfactorily dispensed with.
This promotion takes place quarterly. Please note that your lucky winning

number falls within this booklet representative office  . In view of this, your

$4000000 (four million us dollars) would be released to you by this payment

office. Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated

period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.
Our  agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of

your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish contact via

e-mail with the particulars presented below citing the batch and reference

numbers to this letter .
Name :
Age :
Occupation :
Phone number:
Sex :
Nationality:
Home Address:
To claim your prize,fill in the above form and have it sent to
International Claims Unit
Fiduciary officer: Mr. Micheal Dan
Email: michealdan@compaqnet.fr
Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press

anonymity until the end of proceedings,and beyond where they so desire. Be

further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the

end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and

unwarranted abuse of this program.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
THE ONLINE INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY

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