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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: "planetfinance@terra.es" <planetfinance@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:36:11 +0100 (MET)
Subject: RE: PLANET FINANCE UK EMAIL LOTTERY PROGRAMME






WINNERS ONLY:

C\ Don Jaime I nº11 2º
50.003
WORLD WIDE
Ticket No: 7804468845
Batch No: 0252393053
APPROVED BY: WORLD GAMING BOARD.
SPONSORS: WORLD BANK, IMF, YAHOO!, MICROSOFT

Dear Lucky Winner,


RE: PLANET FINANCE UK EMAIL LOTTERY PROGRAMME

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded PLANET FINANCE UK online email lottery promo which 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.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of the winners in the first category prize with the following data:

Ticket No: 7804468845
Batch No: 0252393053

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £100,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS).
PAST WINNER

Please note, 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.

You are to keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this Lottery program.

Below is the contact detail of your Fiduciary/Claims Officer.
Dr. Todd Aaron
Email: claimsofficer_planetfinanceuk@walla.com

You are to contact him immediately to enable your Fiduciary/Claims Officer file your claims with the gaming board and to obtain the necessary approval and endorsement for payment, and also endeavour to furnish him with the following information as stated below:

1. Your Full Name and Current Address:
2. Tel/Fax Numbers:
3. Occupation/ Nationality:
4. Sex/ Date of Birth:
5. Ticket and Batch Numbers:
6. Your Winning Email Address:

Your Fiduciary/Claims Officer shall verify your information and further instructions shall be sent to you prior the release of your award prize.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your Fiduciary/Claims Officer as soon as possible. All winning must be claimed not later than 20 days of this notification. After this date all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next sweepstake.

Congratulations once again and thanks for being part of the PLANET FINANCE UK
Yours faithfully,
John Reids.
Lottery Coordinator.

About us
Planet Finance is an international non profit organization, which aims at alleviating poverty by contributing to the development of the microfinance sector. Planet Finance Microfinance has proven to be one of the most efficient instruments to help create economic opportunities for the poor. By providing access to financial services to the poor and the poorest, financial intermediaries among which Banks, Cooperatives, NGOs and Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) worldwide have contributed to the creation of an inclusive financial sector.
Planet Finance also works with the private sector (banks and financial institutions, government and international agencies) to facilitate the creation of an efficient microfinance sector. Planet Finance, is based in United Kingdom, and has developed operations in more than 60 countries and has established an international network of affiliated offices in Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal), the United States of America, the Arab World (United Arab Emirates), Latin America (Mexico and Brazil), Asia (India and China) and Africa (Morocco, Senegal and Benin).



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