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

Fraud email example:

From: powel davis <p_davislotto@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION ( congratulation )



Shell Lottery Promo
Shell Management West-Africa
(Customer Services)

Ref: Ng/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Winner,


NOTIFICATION OF YOUR WINNING

We happily announce to you the draw (#951) of the Shell Lottery Promo,
online Shell program held on 1st September 2006.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 02-19-28-33-44-49 (bonus no.21), which subsequently won you the lottery JACKPOT category i.e match 6. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $300,000.00 (Three Hundred Thousand Dollars) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of $1.200,000.00 shared amongst four (4) lucky winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from

World Wide Web sites through Ballot draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place yearly.

Note that 10% of your claim will go to the victims of the December 2005 ( Tsunami Victims.)

In view of this, your $300,000.00 (Three Hundred Thousand Dollars) would be released to you by our authorized official paying bank. as they will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

To file for your claims. please contact Our Official Paying Bank below.

UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
Email: union_bankofnigplc@myway.com

TELEPHONE; 234-80-80310228





Call or email The Bank for your Payment Processing .

Note: All claims must be made before one month of receipt of this Notification.


Mr Powel Davis
SHELL WEST -AFRICA

APPROVED
Good luck & congratulation,
The Shell Lottery Promo.






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