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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447040116865 (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.
  • fsmwilliamscobbs@cooperation.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Spenish Gordo<cooperation@cybersist.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 07:04:05 -0700
Subject: Congratulations!Your Email Has Just Won You cash prize of USD $1,000,000(ONE MILLION DOLLARS)


THE SPANISH EL GORDO LOTTERY EMAIL DRAWS
Espa&ntilde;a.
C\\ Don Jaime I n&ordm;11 2&ordm;&nbsp;
50.003 Zaragoza&nbsp;
Espa&ntilde;a&nbsp;
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Dear Lucky Winner
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We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of the SPANISH EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA HIGH-STAKE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM THE BIGGEST &amp; RICHEST LOTTERY IN THE WORLD.
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The online Cyber Lotto Email draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 500,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
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After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the first category with the following data
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Ref Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/BAZ
Batch Number: 12/25/0034
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750


You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of USD $1,000,000(ONE MILLION DOLLARS) each from the total payout.
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Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
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To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company with your winning numbers for first category winners with the information below:
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Williams Cobbs Sr.,
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.
Company: SECURE TRUST BANK PLC
Royal Buildings
2 Mosley St Manchester M2 3AN
Tel: +44 704 011 6865
Fax&nbsp; +44 207 681 1078
Email: fsmwilliamscobbs@cooperation.net
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&nbsp;You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important, as a case of double claims will not be entertained).




Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
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Thank you and congratulations!!! &nbsp;
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Yours faithfully,
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Sir. Smith Carpenter.
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N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than&nbsp;72&nbsp;hrs upon receipt of this information to file for your claims after this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed Please do not reply to this mail...
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