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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 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.
  • +447024024938 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC." <info@lottery1.wanadoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:36:54 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: OFFICIAL WINNER NOTIFICATION::::::::::::::::::CONGRATULATIONS


POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC.
P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
POWERBALL BV LOTTERY 2006
Date: 1st July 2006
Ref Number: PBL/ CN/ 6654/ CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE;

British and American private international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to
your notice the final draw and the result of the 30th June 2006. POWERBALL LOTTO -Wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in London, 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 seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and buisness
pursuits. It 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 45 lucky consolation prize
winners Your email ID identified with Coupon No. PB L 2348974321 and
was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses
submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You
have won a consolation cash prize of £500,000.00 pounds (five hundred thounsand Pounds only).

The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your
consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by our
official Finance House. They will render to you complete assistance and
provide additional information and processes for the claims of your
consolation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please Mr Walter Atkinson,Agent
powerball lottery who has been assigned to assist you with the
following details.

WINNING INFO:
Amount Won: £500,000.00 pounds
Coupon Number: PBL 2348974321
Reference Number: PBL/ CN/ 6654/ CP
Date of draw: 30th June 2006

CONTACT INFO:
Name: Mr Walter Atkinson
Tell: +447024024938
Email: agentwalter06@earthlink.net

Once again congratulations from the management of the Powerball
International Lottery on your consolation prize winning, we hope that
you will use the winning for good causes and also partake in the forth coming Powerball Lottery Wheel Egames.

Regards,
Mrs. LAURA CHASE
(Group Cordinator)

Copyright  1994-2006 Power Ball BV Lottery International Inc.

All rights reserv
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