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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!

Fraud email example:

From: SHAWN JANET <enquiry_claims_sweepstakespromo@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 03:37:06 +1000 (EST)
Subject: YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FORWARD YOUR FILLED FORMED TO US FOR ONWARD PROCESSING


I RECIEVED YOUR MAIL,
I UNDERSTAND YOUR POSITION AND I WANT TO REASSURE YOU THAT THIS PROGRAM IS NOT A SCAM . IT IS RECOGNISED AND REMAINS THE PROPERTY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN CONJUCTION WITH THE ITALIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION,TO COMMEMORATE THE RECENT VICTORY OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE JUST CONCLUDED FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT.

THE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD ORGANISES THIS LOTTERY PROMO EVERY WEEK.

This promotion is in appreciation of our International Support in the just concluded FIFA WORLD CUP Finals in GERMANY, and the correspondent capital profit in the stock market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings.

Please be informed that all winners in this program have been selected
randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000
companies and individual e-mail addresses the internet database.

Your email address,emerged as one of the lucky winners from the balloting,
from which fourty selected winners of five hundred thousand pounds each emerged from the numerous email addresses randomly chosen.
For all our international winners the value of the amount comes to 1,000,OOO.00 EUROS (ONE MILLION EUROS).

ONCE AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS!!!

YOU SHOULD SEND YOUR REPLY TO ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECIEVE THIS MAIL

I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU

YOURS FAITHFULLY
JANET SHAWN,

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