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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.
  • peterwaterman01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: marvin leaonard <lotterycustomercare00@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: peterwaterman01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 21:17:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dear Winner


Attention:

WINNING PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the official announcement yesterday of
the winners of the EuroMillions International Lotto held on Friday 30th
december 2005.

You or your company, attached to ticket number 2F5-7HK-4329,serial
number 53J-721B drew the lucky numbers 3-14-41-48-49-1-4, and
consequently won the lottery in the 3rd international category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump-sum Payout of US$850,000.00
(Eight hundred and fifty thousand USD) in Cash credited to file with
Ref No: EURM/43172845/05 and Batch No: 31/6805G8/FM.
This is from total prize money of US$17,000,000.00 shared among 20
international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system
drawn from over 150,000 companies and individuals from Australia, New
Zealand, Africa, Europe, North America, South America ,United state and
Asia as part our International promotions program for the year,
conducted bi-annually.

Congratulations!

Your fund is now deposited with our finance firm 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 have
been fully processed and your total prize money remitted to you.
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 slot to
be
held September 2006.

For the immediate collection of your prize money, Please contact
directly our Cashout Payment Administrator

Peter Waterman
Payment Administrator
EuroMillions Payment Outlet,United Kingdom
E-mail: peterwaterman01@yahoo.co.uk

All prize money must be claimed before 15th of May 2006, after this
date all unclaimed funds/Winnings will be returned back to the
treasury as Invalid.

All correspondences to PETER WATERMAN should have this email sent along
with it along with your Contact Address, Country of residence and your
E-mail address.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your 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,

Marvin leonard

NOTE. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to instant disqualification.

PLEASE CONTACT PETER WATERMAN BY EMAIL


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