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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.
  • +447040102913 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: thomasbaker080@comcast.net
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:15:40 +0000
Subject: Congratulations!!! HONDA AWARD NOTIFICATION




HONDA COMPANY UK.
An Affiliate of Honda UK.
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON


AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited results of the HONDA CAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM held on 15th August, 2006. You were entered as dependent clients with: Reference SERIAL NUMBER: 652-662 and Batch number AT-040SB06-03. Your email address attached to the ticket number: 2752246896 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category, in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of £2.500.000 in cash credited to file Reference Number: IPL/4249859609/WP1, alongside with Brand New Honda FR-V. This is from a total cash prize of ten million pounds shared among all our international winners in all categories.

Congratulations!!!

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world,as part of our international promotion program. Due to mixed up of some names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you. This is a part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or
unwarranted participants or imposters, taking advantage of the situation. You are to contact your/our-accredited agent for your
claim now.


MR. Williams Morgan
HONDA CLAIMING SECURITY AGENCY.
Email: honda_claim_office@070yahoo.co.uk
Phone Contact: Tel: (+44) 704-010-2913 (+44)-701-112-1620
Fax Contact (+44) 871-242-0533

NOTE: Do not reply this mail. You are to contact your claims officer
directly immediately.with your information

1. Full names.
2. Residential address.
3. Phone number.
4. Fax number.
5. Occupation.
6. Sex.
7. Age.
8. Nationality.

Thomas Baker
Honda Award Notification Officer
C.E.O HONDA AWARD OFFICE

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