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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • cedric.brooke@worldemail.com

Fraud email example:

From: DILC Program <dilc.program@worldemail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:32:11 -0500
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

 

CONGRATULATION

 

Ref No.:    03/DILC/EURO/06
Batch No.:  DILC/11/IL/UK/06 

 

Dear Winner,

 

The management and team of the DILC lottery programs which to congratulate you for being amount this months lucky winners in our lottery draw. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: DILC-3410 761 with Serial number: 001272045 drew the lucky numbers: 19 42 46 12 21 32, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £1,356,000 (one millions three hundred and fifty six thousand pound sterling) in cash credited to file DILC/FL/30/06. This is from a total cash prize of £240,000,000 (Two hundred and fourty million pounds sterling), shared amongst the Twenty (20) lucky winners in this category.

 

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him.

 

All participants were selected randomly from the internet through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 websites. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous person(s). Please be warned!!

 

To file for your claims and for further assistance on how to claim your winnings, please contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims.

 

Agent: Cedric Brooke
Email: cedric.brooke@worldemail.com

           cedric-brooke@flash.ro

 

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference numbers and batch numbers on the top right corner in any correspondences with us or our designated agent. Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of DILC Lottery Program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

 

Sincerely,

 

Management and Team
DILC Lottery Programs

 

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Please Note:

 

* Claims should be made within seven (7) working days from the day of contact, delay will be warranted to disqualification;
* Lottery winnings will be claimed by winners either via bank transfer or personal pick-up;
* Individuals not interested or unable to facilitate the claims to their winnings should forward an application stating their inability to avoid time wasting and problems for their Fiduciary Agent.

 

 

                                                                               

 

 

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This email is send by a "Demo Software" - Demo 7.0 Notification

 

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