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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.
  • +447040101161 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • claimsmastercardpromos@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Master Card Online Game" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:13:51 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?=50=6c=65=61=73=65=2c=20=4b=65=65=70=20=55=73=20=55=70=64=61=74=65=64=2e=2e=2e=2e=2e=2e=2e=4d=61=73=74=65=72=43=61=72=64=ae?=


MasterCard® / Microsoft® INTERNATIONAL MEGA JACKPOT
BARCLAYS BANK PLATINUM VISA CARD
BARCLAYS PREMIERSHIP
MICROSOFT OFFICE, UNITED KINGDOM
DIRECTOR; MR. ASHLEY STEVE.JR
PHONE: +44 704 010 1161
Compliant E-mail: lotto_promo112@msn.com

MasterCard® No: 5148 6547 8940 6543
Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178
Ballot winning No: 6782

MasterCard® / Microsoft® INTERNATIONAL MEGA JACKPOT UK. TABLE OF REWARD.

Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to the MasterCard No: 5148 6547 8940 6543, won in the sixth (6) PROMO categories 006. Your email address has brought you an unexpected luck, please read through this message. See names of winners below, you are at the sixth position of ten, you are so lucky to be one. Your e-mail address was selected and confirmed by the International internet E-mail Police. Please, be advised to forward any mail of such from any organization to your claims Admin. Scam artist and Harkers are everywhere so be very very careful.

You are therefore been approved by MasterCard Int./Microsoft UK to claim £6,000,600.00, SIX MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Equivalent to, ($11,064,000 USD), Eleven Million, sixty four thousand US Dollars. In cash, Credited to MasterCard No. 5148 6547 8940 6543, and With Reg. No. MCIMJ: 5148/4178, you are the sixth lucky winner of the total winners of 10 take note. You all won £6.6, million Pounds each. Be informed that your prize (MasterCard No: 5148 6547 8940 6543) has been insured and ready for pay out or delivery if necessary. There is nothing much to do all you will have to do is contact your claims administrator for further instructions, first by email. See contacts below. Make sure you send an email to the two email addresses below for file keeping.

MasterCard® Claims Administrator
Name: Porter Frank
E-mail: lotto_promo112@msn.com
E-mail: claimsmastercardpromos@yahoo.co.uk
PHONE: +44 704 010 1161


Again for your information, all the 10 participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system (MCBS) drawn from each continent and from each ISP, by the most powerful Microsoft, as part of our International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, to promote the use of MasterCard’s and the use of Microsoft Offices all over the World. Further more, to promote the use of online payments, for the settlement of debts (taxes) and payment of bills. Your funds £6.6, million pounds, has been lodge in this MasterCard (5148 6547 8940 6543), insured and ready for payment. Be advised to keep your personal information to your self. For example; Credit cards, security numbers (code) etc. Please, for security reasons you are advised to keep this whole PROMO to yourself, keep out of the reach of friends and from the entire public to prevent Identity theft. All you have to do is provide the necessary information to process your MasterCard Certificate and to upgrade our up coming WEBSITE. Be informed that this is our first lottery promo (2006). Please, note that they are imposters (Scammers) who pretends to be us, so be careful.

Do email the above Claims Administrator, at once with all the claims requirements below. To avoid unnecessary delay.

Claims Requirements:
1. Full Name:....................................
2. Address:........................................
3. Nationality:...................................
4. Age:.......... Date of Birth:............
5. Occupation:...................................
6. Phone:................Fax:.....................
7. State of Origin:...........Country:...........

The above requirements are much more needed to proceed. Be free and fast to send the above details to your claims Administrator.

PROCEEDURES / RIGHTS AND PRECAUTIONS.

1. Contact the Claims Administrator with all your claims requirements well filled.
2. Your Credit card, has been insured to it real value.
3. Payments are made in Great British Pounds. (£6.6, million pounds)
4. Read carefully and contact the necessary office. (Claims Administrator)
5. In case of any doubt, you have the right to send a mail to the Director. Or ask for a letter of Guarantee.
6. The right to your personal information. Do not give out your personal Credit card information to anyone.
7. Any mail received of such should be reported to the claims Administrator above. This will help fight scam.
8. Your claims administrator, has the due right to disqualify you for misconduct
9. Do not reply this mail, please, contact your claims administrator by email ok.
10. All prizes should be claimed on or before 21 days (three weeks) after announcement.

WINNERS:
(1) Ferdinard Norlando, (2) Aslim Hassan, (3) Kenneth Bullovert. (4) Lernas Munhill. (5) Mac Covert. (6) YOU, (7) Lakers Janice, (8) Mathew Grew, (9) Ise-Ogieolu Awee'samah (10) Princess Ovia.

SPONSORS:
1. MICROSOFT INT. (BILL GATES) 2. DELL INTERNATIONAL. 3. SONY ELECTRONICS AND OTHERS........

Secretary
Mr. Edwin Fong @
MasterCard® / Microsoft® Mega Jackpot.

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