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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • santaluciaseguros@casinomail.com

Fraud email example:

From: EURO MILLION AWARD <euromillionaward@caramail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:52:58 +0100
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION 2005 EMAIL AWARD PROGRAMME

This is a multi-part message in MIME format

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Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

EURO MILLION LOTTERY AWARD 2005
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF: EMLA/61-ILGI0509/45
BATCH:EMLA/15/096/WRCS
RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION
Dear Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro Million Lottery
International programs held on the 30th December 2005 in Madrid Spain.Your =
e-mail address
attached to ticket number: 213440056545 168 with Serial
number 4188/05drew the lucky numbers: 21-6-46-13-45-3,which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have thereforebeen approved to
claim a total sum of 500,000.00 Euro(Five Hundred Thousand Euro) in cash =
credited
to file KPC/9087533308/03.This is from a total cash prize of Five Million =
Euro(5 million Euro), shared amongst the first Tenth (10th)lucky winners in =
this category.Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our =
Madrid booklet representative office in Spain as indicated in your play =
coupon.In view of this, your 500,000.00 Euro(Five Hundred Thousand Euro) =
would be released to you by our security firm in Madrid,Spain.Our agent will =
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds =
assoon asyou contact him.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through =
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This =
promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep =
your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your =
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fitto claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and =
unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.Pleasebe =
warned.To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent:
DR PETER JAMES
Santa Lucia Security Company. Spain.
Email:santalucespana@netscape.nets
Email:santaluciaseguros@casinOmail.com
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice. Remember,You are to contact our agents by email and =
within a week of receiving this notice.After this date, all funds will be =
returnedto the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed. To avoid =
unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your =
reference/batchnumbers in any correspondences with us or our designated =
agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Yours Sincerely,
Wilfred Miguel
Lottery Director.


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