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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.
  • +447024062223 (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.
  • awardpaymentdept@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "OVERSEA STAKES LOTTERY" <overseaeuroprizze@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fifa_ylottery@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:31:35 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION,YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER.

FIFA -YAHOO 2006 WORLD CUP EURO EUROPEANS   LUCKY LOTTERY                                                                          

                                                     SPONSORS     

                 

 

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION:

REF NUMBER: OSL/653/029/03
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06-03

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

Dear Lucky winner, 
We are delighted to inform you, of your prize release  from the

FIFA -YAHOO 2006 WORLD CUP EUROPEANS EURO  JOINT LOTTERY BOARD 

Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses , your Email was attached to ticket number 27522465896-532 serial number 652-662  batch number AT-040-SB06-03 is batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 7-14-18-23-31-45 , which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You  hereby have been approved of the sum of 4,000,000.00 (EUROS) in cash credit file ref No. 778400963 amongst  lucky winners in this category.

All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from canada,Australia, United state,Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of         2006 World Cup promotion programme .

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some multinational and international companies by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, bill gates of microsoft inc and other corporate organizations as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communitties where they have operational base. 

Please, in order to avoid unnecessary  delays and complications remember to quote personal  winning numbers  in all correspondence with us. Congratulations once again from all members of                 FIFA -YAHOO 2006 WORLD CUP EUROPEANS EURO JOINT LOTTERY BOARD .

Thank you for being part of our  promotional program. For the immediate release of your cash prize, please contact Our lottery Award payment department at:  awardpaymentdept@myway.com Telephone: +447024062223

Send the following Personal Data:

(1) Your full name .
(2) Your winning numbers .
(3) Quot amount won .
(4) Date of beath .
(5) Occupation .
(6) Contact address .
(7) telephone,Cell phone  and Fax number .
(8) International passport or drivers licence .

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claims is processed and your prize released to you .This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.Note: all winnings MUST be claimed within 14 days from the day of notification.

BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.  

                                          

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