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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447024017066 (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.
  • cashnetsweeplottery@mac.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "CASHNETSWEEP LOTTERY-- IRO" <info_cashnetlotterywinners@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:39:47 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS;YOUR EMAIL HAS WON X3,987,470.

THE CASHNETSWEEP LOTTERY
P O Box 6050
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

Ref no:UK/CNS/9420X2/68/06
Batch no:074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of the online cashnetsweep lottery promo. The online
cashnetsweep lottery promo draws were selected randomly from World Wide Web
sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.However, no
tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket
numbers for representation and privacy.It is yet to be claimed and you are
getting the FINAL NOTIFICATION as regards this.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e i.e Match 13
plus bonus for the second prize with the following data:

Ref Number: UK/CNS/9420X2/68/06
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369
Ticket Number: 6 12 19 20 38 39 (bonus no.13)


You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £3,987,470
(Three million nine hundred and eighty seven thousand,four hundred and
seventy pounds sterling) in cash credited to file CNS/9023118308/06.
This is from a total cash prize of £15,949,880 shared amongst
the(4)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 13 plus bonus.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.Please note that your
lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office
as indicated in the play coupon.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings; you are advised to
contact the fiduciary agent with the information below:


Roland Holmes(Mr).
Official email:cashnetsweeplottery@mac.com
Direct access tel #+447024017066.
Director:International remittance Unit.
(Claims and Award Division)
For:CashNetSweep Lottery,UK.

Kindly provide him with Claims Requirements Below:


NAME:.................................................
AGE:.............................................................
SEX:.............................................................
ADDRESS:..................................................
PHONE:.......................................................
OCCUPATION:..........................................
COMPANY:.................................................
ANNUAL INCOME:..................................
NEXT OF KIN...........................................
STATE.........................................................
COUNTRY:.................................................
NATIONALITY..........................................

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this
date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your
fiduciary agent.You are to keep all lotto information away from the general
public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE CASHNETSWEEP LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Nicole Horner (Mrs)
Online coordinator for THE CASHNETSWEEP LOTTERY;UK.
Sweepstakes International Program.

Important Notice:Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.Your Email address and winning information were
provided by INTERNET AND EMAIL CENSORS ASSOCIATION. The Cashnetsweep Lottery
accepts no blame for any unwarranted use of email addresses,
therefore all blames, complains should be directed to the INTERNET AND
EMAIL CENSORS ASSOCIATION.

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