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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
  • luckydaylottopromo2005@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • globalagency@inbox.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?nina=20antonio?= <luckydaylottopromo2005@yahoo.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:58:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: You Are Winner of Luckyday Lotto


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: luckydaylottopromo2005@yahoo.de

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

LUCKYDAY E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

HUDSON CAMBERWELL

www.luckyday.nl



BATCH NO: PLD/31214257/1988/2202

REFERENCE. NO. PLD/21449267/2550//2203


WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE........CONGRATULATIONS!!!!



This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT


INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 29TH of November 2005. Due to


the mix up of number, the results were released on the 20 of January 2006.


Your name attached to ticket number 219028657434 with serial number


918735625drew the lucky numbers of 21-70-81-82-99

which consequently won the lottery in the 1st category.



You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of £2,000,000.00 (TWO


MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) in cash which is deposited with a Finance & Security


Company in your favour as beneficiary and covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY

Due to mix up of some numbers and names and for the sake of impostors, we ask


that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has


been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security


protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by


some participants.


All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from


only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000 individual


email addresses and names from all over the world.To begin your lottery


claim, please contact our agent below(GLOBAL AGENCY LTD) that have been


appointed for the processing of your claim with your contact telephone and


fax number to begin the processing of your claim:


COMPANYNAME:GLOBAL AGENCY LTD

CONTACT NAME: Mr.JAMES COY

CITY/ COUNTRY: London, United kingdom

TEL: 44-777-161-8164

FAX: 44-707-570-7999,44-707-502-0732

Email: globalagency@inbox.com


Note that all winners must claim there win not later than Two weeks after the


receipt of this message. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included


in the next stake.Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and


complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch


numbers in all correspondence.Furthermore, should there be any change of


address do inform our agent as soon as possible.



Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being


part of our promotional program.


Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.


Yours Sincerely,



Mrs. Nina Antonio

Promotions Manager.



- nina antonio

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