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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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 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.
  • pedroferndo@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Alonso Juan <logallnet@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: pedroferndo@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:52:47 +0200
Subject: URGENT


AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION / YOU HAVE WON AN E-MAIL
LOTTERY.
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION AND HOW YOU BECAME A WINNER.


(LOGNET LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL)
Prize Remittance Division
Batch no: ID/8704/06/055.
Ref no: 4685479LP.
Serial no: DF43770DE.
Ticket no:0569975.
Lucky no:072-843-813-006.



This email confirms that you have received from the LOGNET
LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL an official notification of your
lotto winning in the LOGNET LOTTO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION
TICKET GAME (L.L.A.S.T) which took place on September 5th,
2006 at our lottery office complex in Madrid, Spain.


You have won the LOGNET LOTTO PRIZE OF €500.000.00 Five
Hundred Thousand euro only, a prize payout of your winning
has been approved by the LOGNET LOTTO GROUP. In accordance
with the Europe Million lottery ordinance, you are
authorized as the lotto prize winner to request claims of
your winning prize.


The LOGNET LOTTO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET (L.L .A.S.T)
GAME is an online promotional program organized by the
LOGNET LOTTO INTERNATIONAL. This programmed is a given out
offer to all customers of lognet lottery all over Asia, America,
Africa, Europe and Midden East .


This promotional program takes place every four years.
Total of 500,000 different email addresses are entered
for the LOGNET LOTTO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME
(L.L.A.S.T). All email addresses entered for the game are
submitted by our partners, international email service
providers/ marketing companies and public services
providers. Winners are randomly selected systematically
through our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS).


Your email ID was included among the 500,000 email
addresses and was luckily selected among 1-5 batch
winners.Always quote your batch and refrence numbers in
all your subsiquent mails to us.


Note that the LOGNET LOTTO INTERNATIONAL will remit prize
payout to only winners who officially file in for their
prize claims. You are to contact our payment office for the remitance
of your prize by Bank Transfer to your BANK Account in your country
of origin.

You are required to file your claims by contacting the
approved financial agent for your claims on this email
address below:

MR. PEDRO FERNANDO
Tel : + 34- 66-903-7775.
Email: pedroferndo@yahoo.com

Address: AVENIDA DE AMERICA 5,
28830 MADRID, SPAIN.


THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION
PRESIDENT LOGNET LOTTO INTERNATIONAL, ON BEHALF OF L.L.A.S.T
GAMES 2006.



CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.



SINCERELY,



ALONSO JUAN.
GROUP PRESIDENT - I.L.G. I. P

Anti-fraud resources:

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