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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.
  • +6635619209 (Thailand, probably a 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.
  • inquirycenter@yahoo.com.au (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "The management of Vodafone Fifa world cup lottery promotion" <mapb_services@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: inquirycenter@yahoo.com.au
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:23:39 -0800
Subject: Dear winner,contact our Asia/pacific agent for further informations

VODAFONE ONLINE PROMO INTERNATIONAL
In Conjunction with The National Organizing Committee of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 Organisationskomitee Deutschland koniginstrabe 23,80539 Munchen. 13th November 2006.02:57:01-0800

From: The Desk of the Promotions Manager,
VODAFONE FIFA WORLD CUP ONLINE PROMO INTERNATIONAL.
Customer Service and Logistic Department.
www.store.vodafone.com.au
Reference N0: FL/668530092
Batch N0: 452006/14/FIFA06/FL
Winner's Identity N0: MM-52047

"WINNING NOTIFICATION"

Dear winner,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We the entire board and management of VODAFONE ONLINE PROMO INTERNATIONAL in conjunction with the National Organizing Committee of the 2006 FIFA WORLD CUP wishes to congratulate you as one of the selected lucky winner's of the e-mail address ballot lottery international program held on the 2nd of September 2006 in Munich Germany after the FIFA ORGANIZED WORLD CUP.

This Vodafone promotion is Organized by the host country in collaboration with Football world body "FIFA" Funds for the draws were contributed by the major sponsors of the games which include Adidas, Hyundai, Fuji Film, Mastercard,Gillette,Cocacola, Continental, Toshiba, McDonalds and a host of others.

Your E-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545-188 with serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky number's which subsequently won you the "CASH PRIZE AWARD" You have been therefore approved to claim a total sum of (us$250,000,00) Two hundred and fifty thousand united states dollars.

This is from a total cash prize of US$25, 000, 000, 00 shared amongst the hundred (100) lucky selected winners, all winners for the online version were selected randomly from world wide registered web-sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100, unions, associations, companies, soccer fans and corporate bodies that are listed online, this promotion takes place every four (4) years of the Fifa organized World cup in conjunction with the host country.

PLEASE NOTE THIS:
Your lucky winning numbers falls within our Asia booklet representative office as indicated in the draw system, in view of this, your (us$250,000,00 )Two hundred and fifty thousand united states dollars will be release to you by any of our payment offices in Asia.

Approximately (80) lucky winners including you today (13th November 2006) had been notified and may now contact our agents in all the designated regions for the immediate release of their cash prize award.

Our agents has been apportioned among six geographic regions, all lucky selected winner's will need to act on their claims application quickly before the expiration of the claim date-line.

OUR ASIA AGENT CONTACT DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Name: Mr. Fredrick Anderson.
Office address: Indra Tower , Suite 105 , 75/6 Wireless Road Panthumwan Bangkok , Thailand .
Tel: +66-3561-9209, +66-4726 9536
Fax: +66-2251 9977
Email: infocenter@homs.cc OR inquirycenter@yahoo.com.au

NOTICE:
Due to mix up of some names and numbers, we ask that you keep your winning information's confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you, this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program or your cash prize award winnings will be void, please be warned.

Frequently Asked Questions
ADVANCE QUESTION.
1. How was I selected as one of the lucky winner of the lottery program?

Your registered e-mail address was extracted alongside 6.3million other e-mail addresses through computer random extraction from world wide registered web-sites, during the 33-days extraction period that ran from 12.00 AM on JUNE 20 2006,until midnight,JULY,22 2006,you are selected as one of the lucky winner's through computer draw system and we are sending the winning notification to you through the e-mail address that was selected.

BASIC QUESTION.
2. How can I make the claim of my cash prize award winning?
Your cash prize award winning will be remitted to you as soon as you contact our agent.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
According to the code of conducts in the constitution Vol: 189/965: Act 220S1 guiding all permit agencies: If non claim of your cash prize award winning before the "30th of November 2006" your winner's status shall reveal no interest and we would in response refer your "CASH PRIZE AWARD" back to the lottery promotion Service Center.

NOTICE:
ANY SELECTED LUCKY PERSON BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/HER CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS.

CONGRATULATIONS from me and the entire member's of the lottery program.
Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Monica Smith.
International Relations officer.

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