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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024016606 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • leetiayan@realtyagent.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "pch lotto" <pchlotto_uk1@msn.com>
Reply-To: leetiayan@realtyagent.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:20:16 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF WINNING

 

                                                                     

                                                                                          

SUBJECT: NOTIFICATION OF WINNING

 

          

                              

We are please to anounce you as one of the 5 lucky winners in the Publishers Clearing House draws held on the  17th of january 2006.All five  winners address were randomly selected from a batch of 10,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged alongside 4 others as a category 2 winner in this year's weekly Publishers Clearing House

 

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a totalpay out of £250,000(Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds) only.The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

 

(i)   winning numbers:47-14-34-85-67-32
(ii)  email ticket number:FL 754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number:FL09622UK                               
(iv)  Ref number:FL/04/836207147/uk         

 

Please contact the underlisted calaims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

 

 

Email:Leetiayan@realtyagent.com

Tel:+447024016606

Tel:+447024068724

 

N.B:Please quote your reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.Winners must send their names,address,telephone number and means of identification (international passport or drivers lincence)to claims officer,via email to process the immediate payment of your prize.

 

!!!Once Again Congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,

         

Maryann Carter
Contest Department for Publishers Clearing House

Sweepstakes International Program

 

............................................................................................................................
Publishers Clearing House
We also encourage you to visit our website at http://pch.com/ and take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners.Millions are won on daily basis on one of the world"s most famous free lotto                                                                                  
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    Mr leetiayan

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