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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "ich habe eine neue e-mail-adresse!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +447031845784 (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.
  • notification_europeinfo@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • eurolotteryagent_07@yahoo.de
  • agentfrankgerald@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?europe=20lottery?= <notification_europeinfo@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: agentfrankgerald@excite.com
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 07:46:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!


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

CONGRATULATIONS!

FROM THE DESK OF THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

Europe INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY PROGRAM

Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM.


INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTO PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD.

BATCH NO: WIELP/LP/1209/00067/002

REF. No: WIELP/LP/37239/80327/662


WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE, END OF THE YEAR SWEEPSTAKES


This is to inform you of the release of the Europe

INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 24th of April 2006 and the results released on the 28th of April, 2006.


Your email address attached to Ticket No:00430 with

Serial No 31602 drew the lucky numbers of 21-14-00-25-45-92 which

consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of $1,000,000.00 Dollars (One million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file REF. No: WIELP/LP/37239/80327/662.


This is from a total cash prize of $23.7million United States Dollars

shared among several international lucky winners in the premium, 1st,

2nd and 3rd categories respectively. 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 only Microsoft users from over 350,000 companies,

and 25,000,000 individual e-mail addresses all over the world.To

begin your lottery claim, do contact the claims manager with the information below:


MR. Frank Gerald (AGENT)

CLAIMS MANAGER

Europe INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTO PROGRAM

eurolotteryagent_07@yahoo.de

agentfrankgerald@excite.com

Tel: +44 703 184 5784


Note that all winning must be claimed not later than

two week after the receipt of this e-mail. After this period all uncaimed

funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to

avoid unnecessary delays and complications do remember to quote your reference

number and batch numbers in all correspondence.


Furthermore, should there be any change of address do

not hesitate inform your claims manager 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. Dolly Michaels

Lottery Coordinator




- europe lottery

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