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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 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.
  • fiducoordinator_strikermillion@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Onlinedraws Strikermillion <onlinedraws@strikermillions.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:05:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: sm/09622UK


STRIKER MILLION
CYBER ONLINE DRAWS
Monmouth House
40 Artillery Lane
London
E1 7LS

Dear Winner,
RE: PRIZE NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the online cyber lotto Draws of the striker million lotto held on the 18th of September 2006.
The electronic mail online lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of ten winners in the category "A" with the following particulars:
(i) Winning numbers: 37-33-43-24-67-11
(ii) Email code : bw/754/18/76
(iii) Lotto ref : sm/09622UK
Hence you are eligible to collect a prize sum of One Million Pound Sterling.
Please contact the under listed Fiduciary Coordinator as soon as possible for processing of your claim:
Martin Freeman
Fiduciary Coordinator.
Email: fiducoordinator_strikermillion@hotmail.com
He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and remittance of your prize money. When making your claims quote your email code number in the subject of your email. Remember, you must respond to this email no later than two weeks after this date or prize will be returned as unclaimed.
You are required keep this award to yourself, especially your Particulars, until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you.

Sincerely,

Valeri Hollister
Promotion Manager
Striker Million
Do not reply to this mail, Contact your fiduciary coordinator, Martin Freeman.
_______________________

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