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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 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.
  • dukelis_2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • dukelis_2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Duke Alex" <dukelis@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:21:31 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION
We are officially informing you of the result of the
Lottery Winners
International programs held on the 3rd of Janauary,
2006 as part of our
promotional programs for the year 2005. Your e-mail
address attached to
ticket number 77007742781005-18721 with reference
number 414-3721060
drew winning numbers 7-00-71-00-66-49 and credited to
batch number
121cfc, which consequently won in the 3rd category via
our electronic
ticket as stated above. You have therefore been
approved for a pay out
of £1,800,000.00 (One Million Eight Hundred Thousand
Pounds).
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Total funds have now been deposited and insured with
our affiliate
security firm (Bank) for transfer into your nominated
bank account
either by means of wire transfers through any of our
correspondent
banks or any other means suitable to you. We also
advice that you keep
your winning information very confidential as our
security policy
demands to avoid double claims/impersonation and
unwarranted abuse of
this program by some individuals.
All participants were selected through a random
computer ballot system
drawn from over 800,000 company and 1,000,000
individual email
addresses and names from all over the world. This
promotional program
takes place annually and we hope with part of your
winning you will
take part in our next year £20 Million Pounds
International Lottery.
To file for your claim, you will be contacting our
Verification
Department authorized to verify and process your
claims for your total
payment (You will receive more information upon your
acknowledgment of
this email).
To file for your claim, please contact our
Verification Department:
Ms. Gladys Cook Reply Email : dukelis_2006@yahoo.com

This lottery is promoted and sponsored by software
corporations and
other private organizations to help individuals
generate fortunes which
would encourage them to expand their business
frontiers thereby
creating more opportunities and assisting with
humanitarian concerns
within their immediate environment. Please Note that
winnings must be
claimed not later than 12th of March, 2006. After
this date all
unclaimed funds will be included in our subsequent
program coming up
later in 2006. In order to avoid complications always
quote your reference
number in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform us as soon
as possible. Congratulations from our organization and
thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
N.B: (1) Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified from
this program.
(2) To file for your claim, please contact our
Verification Department:
Ms. Gladys Cook Reply Email : dukelis_2006@yahoo.com

Sincerely yours,

Ms. Julie Wright
Programs & Events coordinator
(Proline Group Investment)

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