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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:
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • +447031893393 (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.
  • transworldcourierlink@yahoo.co.th (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Madam Jimmy <wwwmadam2007@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:37:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: WINNINGS NOTIFICATION.


WINNINGS NOTIFICATION.
UK-LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS
Ticket Free/Online Winnings Dept.
Ref Number: UK/9420X2/68
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY3
Telephone: +44-703-189-3393
\We happily announce to you the draw of the Uk-Lotto Sweepstake Lottery
International
programs held in Bangkok-Thailand on the 9th of september ,2006 Your
e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number
5368/02
drew the lucky numbers:07-12-23-26-29-44 which subsequently won you the
lottery in the first category. You have therefore been approved to
claim
a total sum of 2,367,834(Two million, three hundred and sixty seven
thousand,
eight hundred and thirty four British Pounds sterling) which is
approximately
usd4.5m, from total cash prize of 23,678,340 was shared amongst the
first
Ten (10) lucky winners in this category All participants were selected
randomly
from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted
from
over 100,000 companies.
The Trans World Courier Express has been given the Contract to deliver
all
our winners cheque to the address of the respective winners.
TRANS WORLD COURIER LINK THAILAND LTD
410/36 Rachadaphisek Bangkok, Thailand.
Contact Agent: Mr. James M. Hua (Director of Operations and Logistics)
Email address: transworldcourierlink@yahoo.co.th
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote Your
country,
complete official names, contact telephone, mobile and fax numbers,
amount
won, sex, age, occupation and job title, address where your wish to
receive
your winnings cheque, ticket number and lastly the date of draw. where
you
want to receive your winnings cheque in your contact mail to Mr Martin
Hua.
For safety measures and to avoid fruadulent claims you are adviced to
keep
all about your winnings information and notification confidential and
away
from all third parties till your check arrives your address.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program
and
thank you for being part of our promotional lottery programm.
Mrs Jimmmy Martins
Online Co-ordinator/Notification Officer
Sweepstakes International Program



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