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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")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • globalhandsagt@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "YAHOOLOTTERY PROGRAMME" <ylottopg02@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:41:49 -0700
Subject: YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION


[image: Yahoo! Lottery]<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12j3beaqm/M=251521.4110776.5321503.4005595/D=lottery/S=25942828:HEADR/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1144952688/A=1827261/R=3/SIG=10q6fuoc8/*http://lottery.yahoo.com>
THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC

YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te
United Kingdom.


*Dear, Sir/Madam

YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING
NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc programs
held on the 11th of May2006 in London. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky
numbers: 31-6-2613357, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category. You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($450,000) for the month of May
11th2006 lottery win promotion which is organized by MSN & YAHOO LOTTORY
INTL INC .Every month. *
**
* Your winning fall in Africa-Asia! Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within our European booklet representative office in
Africa-Asia as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your
FOURHUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($450,000) would be released
to you by any of our payment offices in
Africa-Asia.Our agent zoned for Africa paying bank will immediately commence
the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
him.


YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to
yahoomail, msn, hotmail, aol, altavista, and others online, among the
billions that subscribe to us only five people will be merge for winnings we
only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for
having been one of the lucky people that won for this month..

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim,
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.
Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw
Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not
claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved.

* *

These numbers are your winning identification numbers, that you will
send to your claims agent,send identification and details of claim to.*
**
**
***Mr:Tonny Cleff ( REGIONAL CLAIM AGENT )*
*Email:globalhandsagt@netscape.net*
*Tel:+447-0240-8132-4 or +447-0240-8133-2
Fax:+448704900678 :+44712475425

You are therefore advise to quote the following information to
the Clams Agent to facilitate them to process the transfer of your fund
without delay:


* *Serial number 5388/02 *
*Draw lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357*
*Ticket number: 56475600545 188 *
*Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788 *
**
*

NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL
CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENCIAL DISQULIFIES
YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE.

Congratulations!! Once more.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Carol Jones
LOTTERY CO - ORDINATOR*
**
[image: Yahoo! Lottery Results] <http://lottery.yahoo.com/>

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