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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:
  • "yahoo uk annual promo draws"
• 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.
  • william_green01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "YAHOO PROMO NOTIFICATION" <yahoopromo@terra.com.mx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:24:39 -0600
Subject: YAHOO PROMO NOTIFICATION (Ref Number: YP/941OYI/04)





WORLDWIDE PROMOTION
june 29th 2006

Yahoo! is a commercial portal to sites on the World Wide Web. Yahoo! today includes many features not found in the original site, but retains at its core two basic services: a categorized, clickable, hierarchically classified list of human-selected Web sites and a search engine (qv) . As part of our scheme to thank our numerous users, on the directive of our ceo Mr Jerry and David, an online promo was introduced.

We happily announce to you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of YAHOO UK Annual Promo. The online YAHOO UK Annual Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 17,922 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of nine(9) winners in the sixth category for the third prize with the following data:

Ref Number: YP/941OYI/04
Batch Number: 12/25/0034
Ticket Number: 56475600545 188

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £500,000 each from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, verifications and satisfactory report. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company for Sixth category winners with the information below:

Mr. WILLIAM GREEN
YAHOO WORLD PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Payment and Release Order Dept.
Email: william_green01@yahoo.co.uk
You are to give the below informations to the claim's agent for verification via email

1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
You are to keep all winning information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).

Please be Warned!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be using addresses, but are not from .

ALL REPLIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
william_green01@yahoo.co.uk


Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
David Squells.
Yahoo Worldwide Promo Coordinator.

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