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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:

• 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: "Parcel Flight Couriers Service" <info@parcelflightcouriers.1to1.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:24:14 -0800
Subject: MESSAGE FROM PARCEL FLIGHT COURIERS...........


Dear Altmann Klien

Compliment of the day from the Parcel Flight Courier Service. Your mail
was received in this office and well understood,Your e-mail address was
attached to the winning numbers: 11, 12, 16, 33, 34, 43 (Bonus Ball 28.) By
our computer draw system, which makes you the winner of the Lottery. And
also All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through computer draw system and extracted
from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online.

Note that here is the web site given to me by the Uk National Lottery Board,
in which you can view your online draw and date your winning date was held
on September 16th 2006.

You can go to our online result web site to confirm the value of your
winnings :-
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/information.do?info=unclaimedprizes

ONCE YOU VISIT THE ABOVE SITE, CHECK FOR YOUR WINNING DATE AND NUMBER.

About of the European bank investigations i do not know any thing about
them, my advise to you as the affiliated courier company working on behalf
of the lottery board i will like to tell you that you proceed with this
winning and send to us the delivery options of your choice.

Thanks you
Mr. Mark Donald's
Delivery Officer.

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