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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:
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447024052258 (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.
  • gross_dicken001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "harbert kamar" <harbert_kamar02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: harbert_kamar_hk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:49:58 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION

Yahoo Msn/Bmw Lottery Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4teUnited Kingdom.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of one hundred
thousand, Great Britain Pound sterlings(£100,000.00)and a brand new BMW 5
Series Car for the month of November 2006 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE AND SUPPORTED BY THE BMW
COMPANY.

YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the
people that are active on the Internet, among the millions that subscribed
on net.We only select five people every Month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you
for being one of the people selected.

You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of
Claim,Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Centre.Yahoo Msn and the Bmw Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20
days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has
won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788

These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to contact
the events manager, send your winning identification numbers to him,to
enable him verify your claims.How ever you will have to fill and submit this
form to the events manager for verification & direction on how you can claim
your winning fund.

1. Full name..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Zip Code...............
8. Occupation.............
9. Company................
11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name: GROSS DICKEN
Email:gross_dicken001@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+447024052258

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mr . H . kamar
(Yahoo Msn/Bmw Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

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