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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!

Fraud email example:

From: DAVID MOORE <dmoore01z@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:12:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PRIZE PROCESSING.


Hello Singh,

I am in receipt of your mail. First of all accept my congratulation on your winning of this prize award.

I wish to inform you that there are procedures to the award payment and the procedures must be followed in total in all payments. I will guild you in this procedure.

To proceed with the claim of your prize, you need to furnish me with the following information urgently;

1) FULL NAMES (SURENAME FIRST)
2) ADDRESS,
3) PHONE NUMBER, CELL PHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER
4) AGE
5) NATIONALITY
6) OCCUPATION

The above information will be needed to secure your prize certificate from the lottery firm in Spain. This winning certificate will validate your winning and entitle you to receive the payment of your winning. A winning approval will also be secured from Spain.

As soon as this certificate and the approval documents are ready, I shall send copies to you.

Once this certificate and approval documents are issued in your name, the lottery firm will automatically issue directives to their payment bank for the payment of your prize money to you.

Please I want you to always be quick with your response to my mails, as we need to complete this process as fast as possible.

Also note that you will be required to pay to this company 10% of your total winning within Twenty-One days after you have received your prize money.

I await your quick response to this mail with the above requested information. Please include all the above requested information on your response to this email. Indicate the necessary code for your telephone and fax numbers.

Once again congratulation as I await your prompt response.

Yours sincerely,

MR. DAVID MOORE
FOREIGN OPERATION MANAGER,
GLOBAL SECURITY & FINANCE COMPANY UK

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