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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  • phil_ziglar01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • phil_ziglar01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: GLOBAL LOTTO OFFICE AFRICAN REGION <glotto_african_region@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 04:48:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON!!!


Date: 03/04/2006
Ref:04/ 8755412/2006
Batch no;987644329/654
WINNING NO: WFD 6540089 GILI
CONGRATULATIONS

Dear sir/madam
It is our great pleasure to inform you of your prize
release on the 3rd of APRIL 2006 from the GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY
INCORPORATE. These lotteries are fully based on an electronic
selectionof winners using their e-mail addresses. Your e mail address
was
attached to ticketnumber; 109865442 serial number 8751128673.This batch
draws
the lucky
numbers as follows 22-41-63-77-82bonus number 34,which consequently
won the lottery in the second category. You here by have been approved
a
lump sum pay of
US$1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLIONDOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: GILI/MM
8755412/05 fromthe total cash prize of US$10,000,000.00 shared amongst
tenlucky winners in this category. All e mail addresseswere selected
through a
computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail
addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle
East,
Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was
promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational
companies as
part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the
communitieswhere they have operational base. Further more your details
(e-mail
address) falls within our African Regional office in Nigeria, as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$1,000,000.00 will
be
released to you from our London correspondent where we have our
corporate
head quarters. We hope with part of your prize, you will
participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact
our fiduciary agent, DR PHIL ZIGLAR. through phil_ziglar01@yahoo.com to
file for your claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning
number
which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well
as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your
file
easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this
information confidential from the public until your claim is processed
and
your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 15th of APRIL 2006; otherwise
all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards
Benny Reagan (co-coordinator)

PLEASE DO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR AGENT
DR PHIL ZIGLAR AT phil_ziglar01@yahoo.com
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE
WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION









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