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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: Lorenzo <inforcofidis@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:12:35 +0200
Subject: EURO-MILLION WINNER DRAW


NATIONAL EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY BOARD
AVENIDA DE ESPANA NO17.
PT.26502 MADRID
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTOINS / PRIZE AWARD
CONGRATULATION!!!!!!!

REF: EURO-MILLION WINNER DRAW NO: (09) (21) (30) luck star number 01, 09,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions cyber draw held on the Tuesday September 5, 2006 .you E-mail address Your attached to ticket pool number (3) (7) (09) (21) (27) (30) (48) (72) (83,and it star number ,01,06,07,08,09 and, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,150,000.00 Euro. (ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND FITFITY THOUSAND EUROS) sponsor by ECOLOGY FUND CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names/programme abuse, we ask that you keep your winning information
confidential until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our! Security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our end of year 50 millions Euro International lottery.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR CLAIMS
All claims should be made through our agent, all you need to do to claim your prize is to visit their office with this latter along with prove of identity bearing your name and your face passport or send Email with this winning email tat you have won a Ecology fund grant with ticket number state about With a lottery program files No: EH06/EU56/ES and winning number 7-8-27-41-48 paying agent can be contacted with the following information:

Office: MD seguros & Financieros
Address: C/ Avda casitas, 12 ,1B
Madrid Spain
Email: infosecur@ipspace.com
Office: +3 4627-258-724
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 27TH of November 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers! In all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified. Sincerely yours,
Mr. Lorenzo cher Lottery Coordinator.
Copyright 1994-2006 Loteria De National all rights reserved. Terms of Service Guideline

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