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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.
• 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.
  • +447040182882 (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.
  • infoservice05@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mary_mclord1" <mary_mclord1@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:16:59 -0600
Subject: MS MARY MC LORD


IRELAND BRANCH
Howth road, Dublin 3
Dublin - Ireland.
REF NUMBER: FL2/05/207152/UK/IE
BATCH NUMBER: 962901-PCF03

Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lotto
jackpot final Winners International programs held on the
10th of January 2006 all games promotion. Your e-mail
address attached to your lotto payment order:


1. Serial number: 45637-77UK/IE
2. Ticket number: GS56754/22/76UK/IE
3. Lotto code number: FL09622UK/IE
4. The file ref number: FL2/05/207152/UK/IE


The payment order (1)-(4), which consequently won in the
1st category, you have therefore been approved for a
lump sum pay out of 2,500,000 (EURO) (TWO MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO) CONGRATULATIONS!!!
For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you
keep your winning information confidential until your
claims have 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
some participants. All participants were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000
companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and
names from all over the world. This promotional program
takes place every year.This lottery was promoted and
sponsored by world Leading Corporations like The Free
Lotto Awards, Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group,
Toshiba, Dell Computers, Apple computers and a
conglomerate of other international IT companies. The
free lotto Internet draw is held once in a year and is
so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and
computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200
Million Euro are won annually in more than 150 countries
worldwide. We look forward to your active participation
in our next year USD50 million slot. To process your
claim, please file in for your claim through our Lottery
Agent Alocated to your file as listed below,
email address below:

Clearance officer: Mr Thomas David
Email Address: infoservice05@netscape.net


Note that, all winnings must be claimed not later than
one month starting from today, failure to respond to
this mail before one months time from today, all
unclaimed funds will be null and void. Please note in
order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
remember to quote your reference number and batch
numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should
there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible. Congratulations once more and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.
NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE
BELOW 18 YEARS OF
AGE.

CONGRATULATION
MS MARY MC LORD
For more info call on +447040182882

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