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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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• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs.Sabrina
Reply-To: fdspromotion@ifrance.com
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:08:55 +0100
Subject: AWARD WINNING ALERT 2006 / FINAL NOTICE


2006 EURO MEGA LOTTERY (Since 1971)
www.loterieplus.com
Admin@euromage.org

REF No: EML= 557/13132
BIOLOGICAL No: BIO= BB8861444

Date: 30/10/2006

AWARD WINNING ALERT 2006 / FINAL NOTICE

Euro Mega Jumbo international Lottery Drew wishes to inform you for the results of the long awaiting biological International lottery program by Euro Mega Lottery Board held on the 10th of August 2006. Your Biological name has been picked as a winner of EIGHT HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EUROS (850,000).

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites and various countries corporate offices through computer draw system and extracted from over 200,000 associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place annually i.e. once a year. This lottery program was organized to improving the use of computer software's and for the benefit of every Microsoft user.


All winning must be claimed not later than 30TH of November, 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to Euro Mega Lottery Union Treasury as unclaimed prize. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications always remember to quote your biological reference winning number in all correspondence.

Your winning prize is now deposited with a Finance institute and insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

To Begin your claim, contact your processing centre
FDS PROMOTION CENTRE (S.A)
Tel: 33 6 10 42 1200
Fax : 33 3 69 20 8097
Email: Processingcenter@euromage.org
Email: fdspromotion@ifrance.com
Contact Person Mr.Johnny Denis

You are to quote your Ref: number, biological details for confirmation of your winnings. Our paying Bank shall commence the immediate transfer of your winning upon your agent confirmation.

Congratulations from all EURO MEGA Staff.

Mrs Sabrina, (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr Olivier (Manager Domestic Operations), Mrs Alina (Director International funds Department

We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate in our next year high stakes US$1.2 billion International lotto. DO NOT REPLY THIS MAIL, contact your processing centre.

EURO MEGA INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL ANNUAL PROGRAM

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