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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "euro - afro asia sweepstakes lottery"
  • "microsoft corporation word lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • wooder_barrdavid@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Sisterlinda Matt." <sisterlinda_consultant@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!! YOU HAVE WON 250,000.00EUROS.



MOTTO: TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF COMPUTER AND INTERNET.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS, THE NATIONAL LOTTO REIMBURSMENT DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK). THIS FILE IS ON RECORD OF MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORD LOTTERY.

L.E.A.A.S Lottery Headquarters,
Euro - Afro Asia Sweepstakes Lottery Inc.
Customer Service,580 N.Tenth Street,
Sacramento,CA 85914,
An Affiliate of Charity International.
London, United Kingdom(UK).




RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First Category draws of THE UNITED KINGDOM(UK) LOTTO PROMOTION INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 28th of July, 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number KE509/SL/41465206-529, with serial
number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently
won in the First Category.You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 250,000.00 (Two Hundred and fifty thousand euros), which is the winning payout
for Category A winners.This is from the total prize money from 7,500,000 shared among the 25 winners in this category.

Your cheque has now be sent to our paying agent in JAKARTA INDONESIA who will process and release your won cheque to you as soon as you contact him through his information below.In your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your
funds remitted to your account.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program.

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and delivery of your
prize cheque to your designated address: "BE WARNED"

You are advised to contact the agents by email. Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE
NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/06
BATCH NUMBER: 75/011/INL

To file for your
claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
***********************************************
Barr.david Wooder,
Tel. office:+6285692030445.
Email : wooder_barrdavid@yahoo.com.

***********************************************
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our
promotional program.





Rev. Sister Linda Matt
(zonal co-ordinator)


Past winners.





Congratulations!

Sincerely,
Rev. Sister. Linda Matt.,
Lottery Zonal co-ordinator ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

ATTENTION : YOU HAVE WON........




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