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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:

• 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.
  • glotto_00001@yahoo.com.hk
  • email.oversealotto_cordinator@yahoo.es

Fraud email example:

From: =?big5?q?LOTTERY=20MILLINIUM?= <lotto_00001@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: johanne_van_dyke@racemail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulation...


§Ú¦³·sªº¹q¶l¦a§}¡I§A²{¥i¹q¶lµ¹§Ú¡Glotto_00001@yahoo.com.hk

INTERNATIONAL SPAIN.

OFFICE: C/ LECEAGA,

7 -2 48002 BILBOA SPAIN.

***********************

REF NUMBER;OSL/653/029/06

BATCH NUMBER;AT-040-SB06-06



Congratulations

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you, that as a result of

our recent lottery draws held on 3rd of April 2006.Your

email address attached to ticket number

27522465896-532 with serial number 652-662 drew lucky

number 7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay

out of 1,000,000(EUROS)(ONE MILLION EUROS)

Note:

ALL participants in this lottery program have been

selected randomly through a computer ballot system

drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000

individual email addresses from all search engines

and web sites.

This promotional program takes place every year,and

is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities

like the sultan of brunei, Bill Gates Of Microsoft

inc, Multi Choice and other corperate organisations.

This is to encourage the use of the internet and

computers worldwide.

For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you

keep your winning informations confidential until

your claims have been processed and your money

remitted to you. This is part of our security

protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse

of this programe by some particitants.

We look forward to your active participant in our

next year US$50 Million slot.

You are requested to contact our clearance officer

below to assist you with your winning and subsequent

payments. All winning must be claim not later than

one month after the date of this notice.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delay and

complications remember to quote your reference

number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of addresses

do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being

part of our promotional program.

*********************************************************

NOTE; YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE

BELOW 25 YEARS OF AGE.

*********************************************************

Sincerely yours,

Mr. Crouch Clarke

******************************************

NB:(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)

Clearance Officer-Details below

Name :Mrs Gracia gregoria

Email.oversealotto_cordinator@yahoo.es



- LOTTERY MILLINIUM

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