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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.
  • +31651672054 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • financehouse2006@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <eurolot_info@virgilio.it>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:13:45 +1200
Subject: Promotion

COCA'COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPTCOCA'COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

THE COCA'COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held on the (28th JULY 2006) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with
the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the
20 Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00 each on the just concluded COCA'COLA
COMPANY PROMOTION.

However the results were released on the 30th AUGUST, 2006 and your email
was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:
12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email
addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals
and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses
were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000
email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by
the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is
the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

In other to claim your £1,000,000.00 prize winning, which has been
deposited in a designated security company in Amsterdam the Netherlands.
You will have to fill the form below and send it to the Promotion manager
of the citi finance and banking for verification and then you will be
directed to the bank where your winning prize of £1,000,000.00 has already
been deposited in your favour.

NAME:.....................................
AGE:........................................
SEX:.........................................
ADDRESS:...............................
EMAIL:.....................................
PHONE:.....................................
OCCUPATION:.........................
COMPANY:..............................
COUNTRY:...............................

Please you are advice to complete the form and send it immediately to our
Promotion manager through email or fax for prompt collection of your funds
from the designated bank.

(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)

Name: Mr. David Diamond
Phone: 0031-651-672-054
Phone: 0031-847-290-451
Email: financehouse2006@aim.com

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your ticket number and ballot number. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).

*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company is not to
partake in this Lottery.

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Rose Hills

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