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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +27738242889 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • johnmeyer@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • rotaruvlad@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Vlad Rotaru <rotaruvlad@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:24:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: prize


CALL FOR CONFIRMATION
Mr John Meyer
CLAIM MANAGER,
TEL +27-73-82-42-889
Email: johnmeyer@katamail.com
YOU HAVE WON FROM THE COMPUTER BALLOT, THE SUM OF
US $2 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS



A ONCE AND FINAL AWARD NOTIFICATION CATEGORY "B".
It is our great pleasure to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of the National Lottery Incorporate promotion programme. for World Cup Bid which will held here in South Africa 2010 The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 55,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of five winners in the category "B" with the followings:Ref Number:NLI/BA29641-Y72 Batch Number:NLI DHX/5108 Ticket Number:01233/TNO59 Serial Number:G2800 Lucky number:62 88 521 You, as well as other winners are to receive a cash prize of $2,000,000.00.(TWO MILLIONS DOLLARS) each from the total payout.
Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. to begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "B" winners with the informations below: Kindly Fill this Details and Send to the Claim Department to enable them assist you to receive your Winning Award immediately.



Vladimir Rotaru (rotaruvlad@yahoo.com)
Institute of Genetics and Plant Physiology
Moldavian Academy of Sciences
20 Padurii str., Md 2002, Chisinau,
Republic of Moldova
Phone (373 22) 337019
rotaruvlad@yahoo.com

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