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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.
  • +447024069791 (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.
  • johnson_bgs@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "irelandonlinelottery@irishlottery.web" <irelandonlinlottery@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:12:57 +0000
Subject: Your Email Won (Congratulations!)


IRELAND ONLINE LOTTERY GAMES
1 Cromac Quay,
Cromac Wood
Ormeau Road
Belfast
BT7 2JD

IRELAND ONLINE LOTTERY NOTIFICATION DESK
We announce to you the online draw of the IRISH LOTTERY which was held
on October 19TH, 2006. Your email address was picked in a lucky draw which
won the Online games for you through your email address.

You are therefore approved to collect a winning sum of £1,450,000 (One
Million,Four hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) from our payment center
been a selected winner in our online lottery games.

Winners of the IRISH LOTTERY where selected from World wide Website
through computer draw system extracted from more than 1000,000,000 address,
these is to encourage different individual all over the world that are faced
with financial problems.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning details
confidential till your claim 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 programme.Please
be warned!!!!!!

To collect your winnings, please complet the claims and send it to our
consultant that will immediately process your winnings through the verification
department of the IRISH LOTTERY after which confirmation will be sent to you to
enable you collect your winnings.

The Consultant Contact are below:
Mr Johnson Briggs,
email johnson_bgs@yahoo.co.uk
D/L : +447024069791
Fax :+448704792486
Consultant Irish National Lottery

*Name of Beneficiary ----------------------------------


*Address: ---------------------------------------------

*City/State:-------------------------------------------

*Nationality:-------------------------

*Sex------------

*Tel: -----------------------------

*Occupation:------------------------

*Next of Kin:--------------------------------

*Age: ----------------------------

*Email ------------------------------

*AMOUNT WON:

Yours faithfully,
Cecilia Daniels(Mrs)
CO-ORDINATOR IRELAND LOTTERY
©2006 IRELAND LOTTERY

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