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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.
  • lottopromo001@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Smith Carlos" <carlossmit@gmail.com>
Reply-To: carlossots@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 05:27:09 -0700
Subject: LOTTO PROMO


*FROM: THE DESK OF THE
MANAGEMENT*
*INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.*
*REF Nº: EGS/475061725*
*BATCH Nº:7056490900/188*
**
* AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE CONGRATULATIONS!
* **
* *
*National Australian Lottery Incorprated wishes to inform you the results
of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Australia held
on 2ND MAY,2006. Your email account have been picked as a winner of $200,
000.00} TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ONLY.

This results is now released to you on 3RD MAY, 2006. and your email address
attached in the A Category. All email addresses were selected through a
computer ballot system in which your email address was selected as one of
the lucky winners. Your lucky number is:- [image: Ball number 11][image:
Ball number 13][image: Ball number 26][image: Ball number 34][image: Ball
number 44][image: Ball number 48] .and bonus ball number[image: Bonus Ball
number 2] .*
*Be adviced to keep your winning information confidential {VERY
SECRET} 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 fraudulent and scammers.*
*All winning must be claimed not later than 12TH MAY, 2006. After this date
all unclaimed funds will be returned to australia as unclaimed. Please note
in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote your reference number in all correspondence.*
* You are therefore advised to contact your claim OFFICER in our region
in lodon@*
* Smith Carlos: lottopromo001@yahoo.co.uk*
* for the processing of your winning immediately.*
*Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email
account users program.
*
**
*Yours in service,
*
*
Yours Sincerely,*
*Mrs Alice Henry *
*Executive(australian Lottery Inc).

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn
Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams
(Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive),
Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).*
*VICE PRESIDENT*
**
*[image: The National Lottery Logo]*

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