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

Fraud email example:

From: "strikermillion " <sssslottery23@rediffmail.com>
Date: 3 Feb 2007 00:40:41 -0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


STRIKER MILLION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO IN CONJUCTION WITH BRITISH LOTTERY OLYMPIC PUZZLE WINNING NOTIFICATION:
REF NO: 132/756/4534Ticket Number 278511465896-6452Batch Number: 638901527-AMB/02serial Number : 3772-554
Dear Sir/Ma,
It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as Category \"A\"&nbsp; winner of Striker Million International Lottery United Kingdom (UK)
Our Lottery software device of random screening of email addresses and names have selected you for this months winning draw.You are entitled to a prize sum of Two Million Great British Pounds(£2,000,000.00).
This is part of the Country\'s Programme to fund for the Olympic games come 2012,The £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm).Lottery Organizations must raise £1.5bn over the next seven years to pay its share of the public money going into the Olympics Games in 2012. A further £650m will be raised from council tax in London and another £250m from the London Development Agency, while similar sums will be raised from ticket sales, marketing, sponsorship and the sale of television rights.
Note:Your Winning numbers: 09-45-22-97-17-61,Email code number: SKM/7405/66/12, Lotto ref number: LOTTO/333/wsxxzFor more Information to immediately collect your prize winnings, you are to contact our Category \"A\" Payment coordinator whose information you will find below.&nbsp;Mrs. Maureen JeffersonVirgin Corporation/Pension Trust,London,United KingdomEmail: payment_clearing_unit@yahoo.co.uk&nbsp; We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you will participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.&nbsp; Thank you&nbsp;Sincerely,&nbsp; THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,STRIKER MILLION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY UK.St.Catherine\'s Court Herbert RoadSolihull West MidlandsUnited Kingdom B91 3QETel:44 702 402 7768

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