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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.
  • +34653710982 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • bmfsagency@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Don Joyner <powerball_lotto2007@latinmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:59:17 +0100
Subject: NEW YEAR WINNING NOTIFICATION FROM POWERBALL LOTTERY


POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC.
50436 CROWN FIELDS,
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

POWERBALL BV LOTTERY 2007

Date:15th February 2007
Ref Number:PBL/ CN/ 7414/ CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE

British and American private international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to
your notice of the final draw result of the 18th January 2007
POWERBALL
LOTTO -Wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate
office complex in London,United Kingdom.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out
prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation
seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business
pursuits.
It major aim is to promote music, theater, art,literature,projects in
the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as
science, research, and higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email
coupon number which was selected a mong the 45 lucky consolation prize
winners Your email ID identified with Coupon No. PBL 2348974321 and was
selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries
from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses
submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You
have won a consolation cash prize of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds only.
The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your
consolation
cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by our official
Clearing Agent in spain. They will render to you complete assistance
and provide
additional information and processes for the claims of your consolation
prize.


WINNING INFO: Amount Won :500,000.00 Pounds Coupon Number: PBL
2348974321 Reference Number: PBL/ CN/ 6654/ CP Date of draw: 18th
January 2007.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact Our Clearing
agent who has been assigned to assist you with the
following details. Fill the below form and send it to The Clearing
agent


FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.FULL NAMES:
2.COUNTRY AND ADDRESS:
3.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
4.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
5.LOTTO NUMBERS: B. DRAW NUMBER:
6.TICKET NUMBER :
7.SERIAL NUMBER:
8.AMOUNT WON:
9.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS A WINNER:

You are required to forward the above details to the claims agent.

CLEARING AGENT'S CONTACT INFO:

Contact Email: bmfsagency@aim.com
Contact Person: Mr.Willy Morris
Tel:+34-653-710-982

Once again congratulations from the management of the Powerball
International Lottery on your consolation prize winning, we hope that
you will use the winning for good causes and also partake in the forth
coming Powerball Lottery Wheel Egames.

Regards,

Mrs. Don Joyner
(Group Cordinator)

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