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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: "strikermillionpromo" <strikermillionpromo@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: sw/754/22/76










STRIKER- MILLION PROMOTIONMonmouth House 40 Artillery Lane,London,E1 7LSDear Winner,RE: PRIZE NOTIFICATION.We are pleased to inform you of the result of the online cyber lotto Draws of the striker million lotto held .The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 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 ten winners in the category "A" with the following particulars:(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-54-67-11(ii) Email code number: sw/754/22/76(iii) Lotto ref number: sw/09622UKHence you are eligible for the prize of One Million PoundSterling.Please contact the under listed Fiduciary Coordinator as soon as possible for processing of your claim:Mr. Daniel PhillipsPayment Operation Manager.Email:payment_operation_manager@yahoo.co.ukWhen making your claims quote your email
code number in the subject of your email.You are required keep this award to yourself, especially your Particulars,until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you. Once again on behalf of all our staff,CONGRATULATIONS!!!Sincerely,Anthony VincentPromotion ManagerSTRIKER MILLION You must be 16 or over to claim prize.Copyright © 1994-2006 The Striker Million Promotion Lottery Inc.

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