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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "arena complex km 18 route de rufisque"
  • "route de rufisque"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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 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.
  • lottomicrosoft@wanadoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "vivian ego" <vivianego11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: asiaelectrolotto@wanadoo.es
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 11:21:39 +0000
Subject: Congratulation:Call immediately for claim.

From:Mrs Vivian Ego.
Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery
an Affiliate of Found money International
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de Rufisque                   
I. P. P Award Dept. UNITED KINGDOM.                

                                               

                                        WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER                                               

Winning Numbers 1 2 26 30 40 21

Dear Lucky Winner,

ASIA ELEKTRONIK LOTTO PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

we are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of A ASIA Lotto International programs.

The on line cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet. No tickets
were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following:

 

Ref Number: PC 9590 AS 9414
Batch Number: 573881545-LNG/2005
Ticket Number: PCP 3502 /8707.

         

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of 3,500,000.00. (THREE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,
statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below:

Dr Hans Williams
Asia Remittance Department Director,
Telephone: +62-81317617590
E-mail: lottomicrosoft@wanadoo.es

You are advised to provide him with the following information’s as he will get back to you with information on how you will redeem your winning.:

Names and address in full:
Phone/Fax number & Occupation:
Nationality & Age :
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
Ticket Number:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 9 days. Thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember
to quote your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lotto information confidential, 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.

Congratulations, once more from all members and staffs of this
program.

Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. our
special thanks and gratitude to sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of
Microsoft and all his associates

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Vivian Ego
Games/Lottery Coordinator.
Lotto International ASIA
www.freelotto.com
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individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended
recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the material from your computer.

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