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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • beneficiaries_confirmation@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • @yahoo.com
  • @hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Benjamin Mathew" <swiss_lotto_winning@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: beneficiaries_confirmation@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:03:56 +0000
Subject: LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

  

  

                            

                                        How to Take Up to
US$360 Million OUT OF SWITZERLAND This Year.

 

The Swiss Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/7392X2/68
Batch: 086/05/KY062
29th NOvember 2005

                LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

     We happily announce to you the draw of the SWISS LOTTO online Sweepstakes International

program held on Wed-3rd-Aug-2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number

5368/02 drew the
WINNING NUMBERS: 03, 23, 28, 35, 42, 45 (bonus no.29), which subsequently won you the

lottery in the 1st Division. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of

$220,072.30 (Two Hundred and Twenty Thousand and Seventy Two Dollars).
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites

through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and

corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet

representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your

$220,072.30 (Two Hundred and Twenty Thousand and Seventy Two Dollars). Would be released

to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European Claims Representative will immediately commence the process to facilitate

the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information

confidential till your claim is 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. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our Claims Representative.

Mr. John Mathew

Email:   beneficiaries_confirmation@yahoo.com  or swisslotto_yourluck@yahoo.com 

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize

breakdown please also verify you’re winning Numbers.
http://www.lotteryshop.com/swiss/results.html

Good luck from we and members of staff of the SWISS LOTTO.

Yours faithfully,

Benjamin Mathew
Online coordinator for Swiss Lotto
Sweepstakes International Program.

For more enquiries please contact us
+447939835745

swiss_lotto_winning@hotmail.com

Open 7 days 9am – 6pm

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