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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "PACIFIC INT'L LOTTERY ORGANIZATION" <asiapr@she.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 22:38:34 +0700
Subject: PACIFIC INT'L LOTTERY ORGANIZATION

DATE: 2TH OF MAY2006.
ROYAL PACIFIC INT'L LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
22th Floor, The Millennia Tower,
62 Langsuan Rd. Pathumwan Bangkok 10430,
Thailand.
BATCH: EGS/ 22504002/03
REFERENCE: 15/0018/IPD
ROYAL PACIFIC INT'L LOTTERY
NOTIFICATION DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

WINNINGS NOTIFICATION OF USD$2M
This is to inform you of the release of PACIFIC NATIONAL PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION PRIZE DRAW, held on the 16th of November 2006,.
Your name was attached to ticket number 085-12876077-09 with serial number 51390-0 that drew the lucky numbers of 03-05-12-14-28-38, which consequently won the lottery in the 5th category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of US$2 million dollars cash. (TWO MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY), in cash credited to file with REF:N.EGS/3662367114/13. This is from a total cash prize of 70,020.225.00, shared among the twenty-five international winners in this category.

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and the money remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 names, email addresses & official addresses, from Asia, Australia,
New Zealand, Europe, North and South America, Middle East and Africa, as part of our International Promotions Program.
We hope your lucky name will draw a bigger cash prize in the subsequent programs. To begin your lottery claims, please contact our Co-ordinator as follows,
NAME: MR.SCOTTY HOWARD AROO
TEL: + 66-1-3821283
EMAIL: nscotty@walla.com
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 26th of Jun
2006. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTY'S
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. .
Please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our Co-ordinator as soon as possible.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program. We wish you continued good fortunes.
Mrs Tom Ong
President Royal Pacific Int'l Lottery Org

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