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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:
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • +447077080607 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448714743512 (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.
  • contact_claimsoffice_07@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "COCA COLA COMPANY ONLINE PROMOTION" <jenni@reedtribe.org>
Reply-To: contact_claimsoffice_07@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:00:47 -0800
Subject: OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

THE COCA COLA COMPANY,
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD,
DEPTCOCA COLA AVENUE,
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON,
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM.


Date:10/12/2007

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held on the (7th Dec, 2006) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with
the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the
20 Lucky winners who won £500,000.00 each on the THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION However the results were released on the 29th Dec, 2006 and your
email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20)
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses
from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.However,
no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different
ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized
email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses
drawn from all the continents of the world. This Lottery is approved by
the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association
of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend
to sensitize the public.

In other to claim your £500,000.00 prize winning, which has been deposited
in a designated bank. However,you will have to contact the Promotion manager
of THE COCA COLA COMPANY for verification and then you will be directed
to the bank where a cheque of £500,000.00 has already been deposited in
your favour.

Please you are adviced to contact the Promotion manager immediately through
email for further processing of your claims.

CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER:

Name:Mr. Robert Lawson
Phone # : +44 707 7080607
Fax # : +44 871 474 3512
E MAIL:contact_claimsoffice_07@yahoo.co.uk

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially
your ticket number and ballot number. (This is important as a case of double
claims will not be entertained). Congratulations once more.

Yours faithfully,
Management

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N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to, disqualification Anybody under the age of 18 cannot participate in this
program.Do Not Reply To This Office As You Are To Contact The Promotion
Manager with Your Informations To Enable Processing Your Winnings.


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