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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 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.
  • powerballonlineagent002@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Jane Sowell" <janesowell02@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:56:16 +0100
Subject: << CONGRATULATION! YOU ARE A WINNER >>


Date:2nd January 2007
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,


CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER OF $ 500,000.00

Europe/ America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors,
POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the
final draw result of the 1st January 2007 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game
which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The
UNITED KINGDOM.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out
prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to
encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. Its major
aim is to promote music, theater, art,literature,projects in the social and
political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and
higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon
number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize winners Your
email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was selected by our
E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000
different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was
included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner
international email provider companies. You have won a consultation cash
prize of US $ 500, 000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only. The
POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consultation cash
prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment
Agency Board. Our PAYMENT CENTRE DESK (PCD) will render to you complete
assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims
of your consultation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please
contact the PCD Information Officer Mr James Cole who has been assigned to
assist you.You are to contact him with the following details for the release
of your winnings.

Claims Requirements:
1.Name in full:
2.Home Address:
3.Age:
4.Occupation:
5.Phone Number:
6.Present Country:
7.Sex:


CONTACT DETAILS OF INFORMATION OFFICER BELOW:
MR JAMES COLE

Contact Email: powerballonlineagent002@gawab.com


gain congratulations from all our staffs on your consoltation prize winning,
we hope you will part take our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel
Email-games.

Regards
Mrs. Jane Sowell
(Group Coordinator)


Record Winning $365 Powerball Jackpot Claimed by 8 Co-Workers!
Eight workers from a ConAgra ham processing plant in Lincoln, Nebraska,
stepped forward to claim the record $365 million Powerball jackpot from last
Saturday night, December 30th. The seven men and one woman said they and
others often pooled their money together when the jackpots reached $40
million or so. The winning numbers were 15, 17, 43, 44 and 48, with a
Powerball of 29. The Power Play multiplier was 4. (more...)

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intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain
information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited from
unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended
recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution or copying of
this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error,
please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the
original message..

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