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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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 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.
  • +34677726326 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • lottointer2006@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mazda motor digital network prom." <lottointersp@netscape.net>
Reply-To: lottointer2006@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:30:26 +0200
Subject: MAZDA MOTOR DIGITAL NETWORK PROGRAM


MAZDA MOTOR DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY PROGRAM
LUCKY NO:000/589-77632
EMAIL: lottointer2006@netscape.net
Dear Sir/Madam
We are please to inform you that you have won a lottery programme .This is an official notification of your lottery winning in the MAZDA MOTOR DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM automatic subscription ticket game (M.M.D.N.I.L.P) played on 16th September, 2006 at the complex hall Plaza Mayor Madrid-Spain. You have won a prize from (M.M.D.N.I.L.P) of €755,000,00 Seven Hundred and Fifty Five Thousand euros only, a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the (M.M.D.N.I.L.P) in accordance with the European lottery ordinance, you are authorized as the lottery prize winner to request claims of your winning prize.
After randomly selecting 800,000 participants from an initial database of emails addresses, all participants were selected through a computer ballot system from all over the World as part of our International Promotions Program which was conducted in view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry Worldwide and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe to all Internet user, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize.
All email addresses entered for the game were submitted by our partner 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 800,000 email addresses, and yours was luckily selected among 1-5 batch winners.
NOTE: MAZDA MOTOR DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM will remit prize payout to only winners whose email address officially won, and will be alowed for their prize claims.
You are required to file your claim,please contact the appointted Lottery Group MEGAS LOTTO SL SPAIN fiducial agent MR.JOEL PHILIPS, this office will process your claim file and send your file to the paying Agency for the remittance of your prize payout of € 755,000.00 euro only.
All winners most claim his/her prize not later then one week of this notification. And you are advised to contact the processing agent by sending your relpy email to the below lottery office email address;
MEGAS LOTTO SL SPAIN.
PRIZE REMITTANCE DIVISION
Office Address: 27 calle francia
28089 Madrid Spain
Fiducial agent MR. JOEL PHILIPS
Processing Officer.
Tel; 0034-677-726-326
Fax; 0034-677-726-32
EMAIL: lottointer2006@netscape.net
THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT MAZDA MOTOR DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM, ON BEHALF OF (M.M.D.N.I.L.P) GAMES 2006. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.
SINCERELY,
MRS.ANGELA L ROMERO
CO-ORDINATOR. (M.M.D.N.I.L.P)
N:B:YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS MZ-61237/B4 (keep this number and your winning notice very personal until after your payment)

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