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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 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.
  • cynthia_morrison101@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "cynthia morrison" <cynthia_morrison@mymail.ro>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:48:46 +0300
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of the Group
Lotto programs held on the 3rd April,2006.Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number 002/8765 with serial number 0000876 drew lucky numbers
8-10-23-30-32-49 which consequently won in the 3rd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of US$ 500,000.00
(Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) in cash credit.This is from
a total cash prize of US $5.000.000.00(Five million dollars)shared among
the ten(10) international winners in this category.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names 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
over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names
from all over the world.This promotional program takes place once every
year,we hope with part of your winning you will be lucky in our
next year USD 10 million international lottery.
To file for your claim please contact our payment center,with this email
address (cynthia_morrison101@yahoo.com) . All correspondence should be
related to this payment center. Remember all winning must be claimed not
later than two weeks from this day, unclaimed funds will be included in
the next year's stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays
and complications please remember to quote your ticket number and serial
numbers in all correspondence.
Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Congratulations!!! from our members of staff, and thank you for been part
of our promotional lucky program.
Note:Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.*************** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MAIL.KINDLY CONTACT
YOUR SPECIFIED AGENT
FOR YOUR PAYMENT.***************
Sincerely yours,
Cynthia Morrison
Lotto Co-ordinator

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