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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • sherry_williams100@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • paris_morgan_fiduciary@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Larry Moore <sherry_williams100@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: paris_morgan_fiduciary@yahoo.it
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:14:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: RELEASE RESULTS


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: sherry_williams100@yahoo.com

UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY Headquarters:

Customer Service

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

# 13 Beach Pkw,Princess Dolly Carlin Towers

Manchester,United Kingdom.


WINNING NOTIFICATION:


We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-ONLINE-LOTTERYInternationalprograms held on the (25th of March, 2006) in MANCHESTER, UK.Youre-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number:5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:19-6-26-17-35-7, which

subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$500.000( Five Hundred housand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file

ktu/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of US $Five MILLION USD ,shared among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.


All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies websites.This promotion takes place annually, Please note that your lucky winning category # :two(2) falls within our West African booklet representative

office in Africa from the five kletreps.(london,sydney,seoul,lagos,athlanta) as indicated in your play coupon.


In view of this, your US$ 500.000 ( Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our payment office in europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate there lease of your funds as soon as you contact her. For security reasons,you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is rocessed 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 by some unscrupulous elements.


Please be warned.


To file for your claim, please contact our fudiciary agent in charge of category two(2) winners:


Mrs Paris Morgan


Email: paris_morgan_fiduciary@yahoo.it


To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your fullnames,your country, your private telephone and fax number,your reference/batch numbers etc in any correspondences with us or ourdesignated agent.Please do fill this form for more verifications


PERSONAL DATA


FULL NAMES:


GENDER:


DATE OF BIRTH:


NATIONALITY:


COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:


MARITAL STATUS:


HOME ADDRESS:


OFFICE ADDRESS:


TELEPHONE NUMBER:


FAX NUMBER:


OCCUPATION:


POSITION HELD:


TICKET NUMBER:


EMAIL ADDRESS:


Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program. Sincerely,


SHERRY WILLIAMS.


UK Online Web Lottery Co-ordinator


The Free lottery promo Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel roup,Toshiba,Dell Computers, Mckintosh and aconglomeration of other international IT companies. The Free lottery internet draw is held quarterly every year and is so organized to encouragethe

use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say thatover 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


We also encourage you to visit our websiteatwww.freelotto. com and take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners.Millions are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous The Free lottery Promo.


WARNING!!!

ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY, THIS WILL HELP US TO FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.




- Larry Moore

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