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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447005809255 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • evelienirenengn@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • evelienirene@mailz.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: megamillionslottery@nonomail.com
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:57:03 +0200
Subject: Payment Notification (contact MRS. EVELIEN IRENE)

Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:01:12 +0200
From: Aldo Belloni <megamillionslottery@nonomail.com>
Organization: Euromegamillions Inc
Reply-To: evelienirenengn@yahoo.es
Message-ID: <37d610bfbcfbfbc2982435e6bee97fbc@localhost>
X-Sender: megamillionslottery@nonomail.com
User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-20051021
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


Attention: Sir/Madam,

RE: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the official announcement yesterday of the winners of the Euromegamillions International Lottery held on Friday 24th February 2006.
You or your company, attached to ticket number 6G84-LN25,serial number 34M-425D drew the lucky numbers 01-11-18-19-47, and consequently won the lottery in the international category.

You have therefore been approved for a lumpsum Payment of US$850,000.00 (Eight hundred and fifty thousand USD) in cash Credited to file with Ref No: INT/EURM/1759J and Batch No: 05/GNF8/LN.
This is from total prize money of US$34,000,000.00 shared among 40 international winners in this category.All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from over 350,000 companies and individuals from Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, North America, South America and Asia as part our International promotions program for the year, conducted bi-annually.

Congratulations!

Your fund is now deposited with our finance company in the United Kingdom and insured in your name.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly private and from public notice until your claim has been fully processed and your total prize money remitted to your designated bank account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of your prize money, you will participate in our end of year high stakes of US$70 Million International lottery jackpot slot to be held in December 2006.

For the immediate collection and remittance of your prize money, Please contact directly our Payment Administrator in United Kingdom:

MRS. EVELIEN IRENE
Payment Administrator
Euromegamillions Payment outlet,London,United Kingdom
Telephone/Fax: +447005809255
E-mail: evelienirene@mailz.net

Your prize money must be claimed before 15th April 2006, after this date all unclaimed funds/Winnings will be rolled over and returned back to the treasury as Invalid.All correspondences to MRS.EVELIEN IRENE should have this email sent along with it along with your Contact Address, Country of residence and your Private Email address.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your Postal address, do inform our Payment Administrator as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our programme.

Sincerely,
Aldo Belloni
Vice-President, Euromegamillions Awards
Wulfingstrasse 6,D-42477 Radevormwald,Germany.

NOTE. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to instant disqualification. PLEASE CONTACT MRS.EVELIEN IRENE BY E-MAIL, TELEPHONE OR FAX IMMEDIATELY.

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