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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.
  • +447011120382 (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.
  • prizeclaimscenter2006@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Catherine Grant <catherine@grantcatherine.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 01:53:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: << OFFICIAL NOTICE ! ! ! >>


EURO MILLIONS
Watford, Head Office and Regional Centre Euro Millions,
Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts,
WD18 9RN

PRIZE AND AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of winners of
the MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on Friday 22nd, September 2006.
Your company or your personal e-mail address, is attached to ticket
number 9901-0148-790-691, with serial number 66109-17 drew the lucky numbers
990-11-815-37-10-83, and consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £420,000.00
in cash credited to file REF NO: EML/ 56-TF-8890776, BATCH NO: 109/91300/EML.
This is from total prize money of £10,500,000.00 shared among the
Twenty five (25) international winners in this category.
To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims
department by email or phone for processing and remittance of your prize money to you.
The claims officer contact email is:
Mr Lewis Williams
EUROMILLIONS
United Kingdom
Email: prizeclaimscenter2006@hotmail.co.uk
Tel: +44-701-112 0382
+44-702 402 1496
You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate
the processing of your claims and certificate which will employ the release
of your winnings to the claims officer.
1. Full names................................
2. Phone/cell and Fax..................
3. Nationality...............................
4. Present Location.....................
It is expected that you would forward this information in the next
24hrs to enable us attend to your winnings. Once we confirm your information,
your payments would be processed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with this office.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your address,do inform us as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
Catherine Grant (Mrs.),
Euro Millions.



Copyright (c) 2006 Euro Millions inc.

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