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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!
• 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.
  • mr_calvinocostantino@yahoo.it

Fraud email example:

From: "ECOWAS DONATION" <MIGRDNXIEV301@prodigy.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:10:14 -0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

The Donations Lottery
12 President Road,
P.O Box 1291
http://www.ipsia.acli.it/
Via G. Marcora, 18/20 - 00153 Roma
ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPO INNOVAZIONE ACLI!!!
Attention Winner,
We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the
ISTITUTO PACE
SVILUPPO INNOVAZIONE ACLI yearly donations.
Organisers
of the United Nations, European Union
And Ecowas Yearly Donations. Your e-mail address
attached to TICKET NUMBER: 1416-4612-750 with
SERIAL NUMBER:3187-17 drew the LUCKY DREW NUMBERS:31-
17-8-28-55
(bonus no.25), which subsequently won you the
donation
in the 2nd
category. You have therefore been approved to claim
total sum of $750,000(Seven
Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars) in cash credited
to file .This is
from a total cash prize of ( $75,000 000 ), shared
amongst the one
thousand (100) lucky winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from
over 100,000 unions, associations, corporate bodies
and consumer
shops in all localities. That are listed online. This
promotion takes place yearly.
your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your
play coupon. In view of this, your
$750,000 (Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars)
will be released to you by any of our payment offices
in Europe,
Africa Or America.
Our agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact her. For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your
donation information
confidential till your Donation is processed and your
money remitted
to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
donation.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid
double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be
warned.

To file for your claim,Please contact our agent.
Mr Calvino Costantino
EMAIL ADDRESS:mr_calvinocostantino@yahoo.it
Endeavour to contact her with the following
informations:
1,Full Names
2,Contact Address
3,Telephone Number
4,Age
5,Sex
6,Nationality
7,Occupation
8, Donation information i,e ticket number, batch
number, reference
number, serial number e.t.c
Yours faithfully,
Rose Wood (Mrs)
Donations co-ordinator and chairperson,
ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPO
INNOVAZIONE ACLI

mr_calvinocostantino@yahoo.it

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