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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.
  • lewiswilliamsfiduciary@gmail.com
  • contactlewiswilliam@iwon.com

Fraud email example:

From: Catherine Grant <euromilllionpromoz03@web.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:58:09 +0200
Subject: AWARD NOTICE


<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p><o:p> [http://www.euromillions.be/Images/index.jpg]</o:p><o:p> </o:p><o:p></o:p>EURO MILLIONS LOTTO
Wheel E-game 2006


EURO MILLIONS
Watford, Head Office and Regional Centre Euro Millions,
Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts
WD18 9RN

REF NO: EML/ 56-TF-8890776
BATCH: 109/91300/EML
Dear Prize Winner,


PRIZE AND AWARD NOTIFICATION send email to: lewiswilliamsfiduciary@gmail.com
contactlewiswilliam@iwon.com [mailto:contactlewiswilliam@iwon.com]

European private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, EURO MILLIONS LOTTO Group International, officially brings to your notice, the final result of the lottery draws held on 25TH of JUNE, 2006. EURO MILLIONS LOTTO -wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The UNITED KINGDOM.

Most recently, this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this, the foundation seeks to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music, theater, art, literature, projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 40,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 40,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of £420,000.00(Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds) only. The EURO MILLIONS LOTTO Group, have approved a payout of your lottery prize which will be disbursed directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your lottery prize.
For due processing of your winnings claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer; Mr. Lewis Williams
email: lewiswilliamsfiduciary@gmail.com
contactlewiswilliam@iwon.com

You are advised to please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with the DPU officer in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications in claiming your prize.Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your prize winning, We hope you will be a part of our forth coming EURO MILLION LOTTO -wheel Email-games.

Regards
Mrs Catherine Grant
Euro Millions. N:B: You can view evidence that we pay our winners via the below stated link:http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13519248,00.html [http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13519248,00.html] Copyright © 2006 Euro Millions Inc.




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