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

Fraud email example:

From: Coca Cola Lottery Promotions <cocacolapromotions@cocacola.com>
Reply-To: paycentrebonanza@aim.com
Date: 5 Feb 2007 19:33:59 +0100
Subject: Coca Cola Lottery Bonanza ! (Final Notification)

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(Customer Services)

Coca Cola Lottery Promotions

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM



WINNING NOTIFICATION



We are pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of the Group Lotto programs BONANZA held on the 19th January 2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 002/8765 with drew lucky numbers-03,18,31,33,38,40 which consequently won in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of £750,000.00 (Seven hundred and fifty thousand Pounds) in cash credit. The only prize winning award in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your winning remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.We will only communicate with you when you respond with the original email address this mail was sent to. For any change of email address, you must first respond with the initial email address.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place once every year, after the yearly national lotto have made their profit from the previous year national draws.

To file for your claim please contact our payment center, with this email address (paycentrebonanza@aim.com) All correspondence should be related to this payment center. Remember all winning must be claimed not later than 28th February 2007, from this day, unclaimed funds will be included in the next year's stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your ticket number and winning numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations!!! from our members of staff, and thank you for been part of our promotional lucky program.



Yours faithfully,

Mr.Brian Hunt

Online coordinator

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