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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447031971597 (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.
  • audley_max@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Grace Micheal" <pbl_mgrace02@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:19:29 -0500
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION


FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
POWERBALL EURO E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REF No: EGS/2251256003/02
BATCH NO :10-23-44-72-80
SERIAL NO: MUOTI/82536
TICKET NO: WRNM/SMI/59909
DATE: 9TH-02-2007


FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT
INTERNATIONAL/WORLD GAMING BOARD. Your name

attached to Ticket No: WRNM/SMI/599090 with Serial no MUOTI/82536 drew the
lucky numbers of 11-40-09-55-23, which

consequently won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of £528,000:00 (Five
Hundred And Twenty Eight Thousand GBP).

which is deposited with the United Kingdom Clearing house in your favor as
beneficiary and covered with HIGH INSURANCE

POLICY. It is important that you keep your winning confidential to avoid
people garnering your information and subsequently

making claim with your winning paraphernalia information’s, POWERBALL EURO
E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL will decline

payment if such irregularity occurs.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies

and 3,000,000.00 individual email addresses and names from all over the
world. To begin your lottery claim, please contact our

agent below that have been appointed for the processing of your claim with
your contact telephone and fax number to begin the

processing of your payment.

ELIGIBILITY:

This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet and is open
to all persons from age 18 years and above with a valid

email address and who live in any of the aforementioned countries. This
promotion is void in all other countries and is also void

where prohibited. Principals and employees of POWERBALL EURO E-MAIL
INTERNATIONAL Promos and its respective Parents,

subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:

It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for the processing
of claims application. It is even more imperative for

overseas winners. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised as a
matter of urgency, to contact the under listed licensed and

accredited claims agent for the processing of your prize awards winning.
Please contact the clearing house (through your claims

agent only) the body assigned with the verification of all emergent winner.
Therefore all protocols laid down by them must be

followed to facilitate your claims;

Agent Name : Audley Maxwell
TEL : +44-703-197-1597
EMAIL : audley_max@yahoo.co.uk

(1) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and

conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of
your prize awards winning.
(2) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details
very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a

breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered
solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of

secrecy taken on employment.

Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of
our Promotions program.

Sincerely,
Grace Micheal.
Co-coordinator.



NB: PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR
Correspondence TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT.

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