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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.
  • +447011140145 (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.
  • bmwlotteryagent6@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: martin schorn <fux46@yahoo.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:48:05 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FWD: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! YOU ARE OUR STAR WINNER!!!!




BMW MOTORS ONLINE LOTTERY <therole@charter.net> schrieb: Datum: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 6:01:48 -0800
Von: BMW MOTORS ONLINE LOTTERY <therole@charter.net>
Betreff: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! YOU ARE OUR STAR WINNER!!!!

THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS
PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF
THE BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs, PE9 2YP, London
United Kingdom.
Reference Number: BMW:2551256003/23


!!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!.

The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International
Awareness Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile Company, wishes to
congratulate you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this
years'
BMW Automobile International Awareness Promotion (IAP) held on 27th of
NOV. 2006, in London, England.

This makes you the proud owner of a brand new BMW 5 Series, M
Sport Saloon car and a cash prize of £450,000.00 GBP (Four Hundred and
Fity
Thousand Great British pounds). The car comes with a special BMW
Insurance Cover for one whole year, that is, till the next promotion in
2007.
It also comes with a one year warranty and FREE repairs at any BMW
AUTOMOBILE depot or service station worldwide.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in
our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of
over a million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email
address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with
ticket
number: 5647600545188 and serial number: BMWP/556543450906 was randomly
selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize
winners.

For you to collect your prizes, kindly fill the verification form
below and send it to the Claims Manager, Mr. Raymond Brown of our
claims
department through email, stating your receipt of this notification. He
has been mandated to offer you assistance and facilitate the urgent
delivery of your prizes.

To file for your claim, you are to fill this form immediately and
submit to our fiduciary agent via email:

MR ANDREW JENNINGS
Email: bmwlotteryagent6@yahoo.co.uk

phone numbers: +44 701 114 0145
+44 703 191 4550.

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

Make Sure this Verification and Funds Release Form is sent to the
Fiduciary agent for quick verification and funds release purpose.

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________
____________________________________________
3.SEX:_______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:________________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
9.SERIAL NUMBER:__________________
10.AMOUNT WON:_______________________________
11. STATE:__________________________________
12. COUNTRY________________________________


Congratulations once more, and keep trusting BMW Automobile for top
quality automobiles.


Engr. Martin Smith
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS,
BMW AUTOMOBILE.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.




THE BMW INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION
COPYRIGHT ©2006. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED





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