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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • +447040118895 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448701358042 (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.
  • claimsofficerbasil@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: powerballegames@aim.com
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:31:01 -0400
Subject: ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!


FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
POWERBALL LOTTERY E-GAMES PROMOTIONS
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF
United Kingdom

Ref No: PB/EGP/60961/OV


Dear Promotions Prize Winner,

RE: ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

POWERBALL LOTTERY annouced the set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM to encourage the use of Internet for lottery Games.

In line with this a bonus award e-based promotions,drawn across the globe using the novel computerised email ballot selecting system was held on the 29th of August 2006 and we are therefore, very pleased to inform you on the emergence of winners in the POWERBALL LOTTERY E-GAMES PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky promotional prize winners. Your email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 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 promotional cash prize of GB 2,714,000.00 (Two million,seven hundred and fourteen thousand Bitish pounds sterlings) credited to Reference Numbers PB/EGP/60961/OV.

The POWERBALL LOTTERY Group. has approved a payout of your promotional cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you,and your cash prize has been deposited under a suspense account by the official Payment Agency Board.

The Claims Depertment of our Due Process Unit (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your cash prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer, Mr Basil Grecher (who has been assigned as your claims officer) with the contact information below:

Contact E-mail:claimsofficerbasil@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: +44 704 011 8895
FAX: +44 870 135 8042
Mr. Basil Grecher

To facilitate the claims of your winings you are advised to contact Mr. Basil Grecher with the following information:

Name:
Address:
Occupation:
Nationality:
Age:
Tel:
Fax:
Ref Number:

Once again congratulations from all our staff on your promotional prize winning.We hope you will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL E-LOTTERY JACKPOT.

Regards,
Patricia Riley (Mrs).
(Group Coordinator)

N.B

In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTERY -wheel E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky promotional prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure.

If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers along with the winning information’s you are not authorized to read, print,retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.
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