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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 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.
  • +447011421942 (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.
  • pblclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: sabgop1@mchsi.com (Mr. Hillary Johnson)
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:35:39 +0000
Subject: POWERBALL LOTTO - Wheel Email-Games 2007 (Contact Claims Agent)




POWERBALL LOTTO. BV
POWERBALL LOTTO - Wheel Email-Games 2007,

Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP

Dear Prize Winner,

PRIZE WINNING NOTICE

Europe/America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors,
POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the
final draw result of the 1st April, 2007 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game which
was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The 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. Its major
aim is to promote music, theater art, literature, projects in the social and
political arena with a focus on health, science, research, and higher
education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon
number which was selected among the 6 lucky prize winners Your email ID
identified with coupon No.PBL2463974321 and was selected by our E-games Random
Selection System (ERSS) with entries from over 50,000 different email
addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was among the over 50,000
different email addresses submitted by our partner international email
provider companies. You have therefore won a cash prize of £ 2,910,000 GB
Pounds (Two Million, Nine Hundred and Ten Thousand Great British Pounds
Sterlings) only.

The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your cash prize which
will be remunerated directly to you by an official Payment Agency. Our DUE
PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you, complete assistance and provide
additional information and processes which will enable a hitch-free collection
of your funds.

Kindly contact the underlisted for further assistance and directives to
claiming you funds:

Mr. Robert Scharfs (Due Process Unit)
Powerball House, 23 Broodford street, Manchester L70 1NL
Tel: +44-701-14219425,+44-701-14219332
Email:pblclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk

Once again congratulations from all our staff on your prize winning, we hope
you will take part in our forthcoming POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel Email-games.

Regards
Mr. Hillary Johnson.
(Group Coordinator)

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