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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.
  • biukgl@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: Jose Lunetti <joselunetti@yahoo.it>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:26:09 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Fill Informations For Claims

Dear Vladimir Biukovic,
Good morning and thanks for your quick response to the notification mail.The Kaadasconi Promotions Lottery is an internet selection lottery and one does not have to enter into lottery or buy lottery ticket before wins but as long as one has an email address/account with any website,one stands a chance of winning and you happened to be one of the rare lucky winners.Congratulations again.
Note that in order for us to process your winning claims, you are expected to fill the required informations of you below and send back to me for immediate onward processing of your winning claims.
The required informations are:
1. YOUR FULL NAME.....................
2. REFERENCE NUMBER.....................
3. FULL ADDRESS..............
4. OCCUPATION AND POSITION............
5. AGE...............
6. METHOD OF PAYMENT/CLAIMS(PLEASE CHOOSE ONE)
(A) BY COMING TO ITALY?
(B) BY PAYMENT THROUGH CERTIFIED CHEQUE?
(C) BY PAYMENT THROUGH BANK DRAFT?
7.EMAIL ADDRESS.......
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER..........
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF INDIVIDUAL.......
10. DATE............
Fill these informations and get back to me with them immediately for processing your winning claims.
Sincerely Yours,
Jose Lunetti
(Claims Agent)
P.S: Quoted below is a part of the notification mail sent to you.Read carefully and act accordingly to enhance a smooth claims of your winning fund."Due to mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated account or any method of payment you choose based on the options that will be made available to you as this is a part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants"Thanks

Vladimir Biukovic <biukgl@yahoo.com> ha scritto: You sent me some e-mail that says that I won 500.000$... Is this a joke?

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