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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.
  • +447011128524 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • claimagentjames@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • info_wordlottointernational@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ben james <ben@ben766.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:11:58 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE: JOB OFFER, REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED


WITH YOUR TICKET NO: 17940128111
RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION
NB:CLAIM
YOUR PRIZE THROUGH THESE EMAIL ADDRESSES:
claimagentjames@yahoo.co.uk
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
WORD LOTTO
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform
you of the result of the SKYBLUE Lotto Winners
International programs
held on the 25TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2006. Your e-mail address
attached to ticket
No: 17940128111 with prize No 1581015/HL drew
500,000.00Euros which was
first in the 2nd class of the draws. You are to
receive 500,000.00Euros
(Hundred Thousand Euros Only ).Please be informed
that because of mix
up in cashpay-outs, we ask you to keep your winning
information
confidential until your fund (500,000.00) has been
fully remitted to
you by our accredited pay- point bank. This measure
must be adhered to
in order to avoid the loss of your cash prizes.
Prize-winners of our
cash prizes are advised to adhere to these
instructions to forestall
the abuse of this program by other participants. It's
important to note
that this draws were conducted formally, and winners
are selected
through an internet ballot system from 74,000
individual and companies
e-mail addresses, hence,the draws are conducted around
the world
through our internet based ballot system.
The promotion is sponsored and promoted by SKY BLUE.We
congratulate you once again. We hope
you will use part of it in our next draws; the
jackpot winning is â
20million.Remember, all winning must be claimed not
later than 25
days of this draw. After this date all unclaimed cash
prize will be
forfeited and included in the next sweepstake. Please,
in order to
avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to
quote your
winning numbers in all correspondence with us.
Congratulations once again from all members of SKYBLUE
Lotto. Thank you for being part of
our promotional program.For immediate release of your
cash prize to
you,please kindly contact
our processing Department with the following
information for onward
forwarding to the paying Bank:
(i)Your names,
(ii)State amount won.
(iii)Contact Address
(iv)Your winning numbers
(v)Contact telephones
and fax numbers

Contact person:
Mr. James Sparks
(International Processing Department).
Email:claimagentjames@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone:+447011128524
Congratulations once again.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Dinabeth Dilk
(Lottery Coordinator).
NB:CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
THROUGH THESE
EMAIL ADDRESSES:
info_wordlottointernational@yahoo.com

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