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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million british pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447031837240 (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.
  • y_i_a_d@winning.com
  • james_andason@representative.com
  • james_andason@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Department Award" <bagwell_35@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bagwell_60@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:15:04 +0100
Subject: YAHOO INTERNATIONAL EASTER AWARD PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT.

                                            YAHOO AWARDS CENTER.

           FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
             YAHOO INTERNATIONAL AWARDS PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT

MANCHESTER UNITED KINGDOM LONDON

EMAIL; y_i_a_d@winning.com

 

Ref: 474061725/04,
Batch: 7056490902/188,
Winning No: GB8701/LPRC

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million British Pounds (£1,000,000.00) for the month of Apr 5th 2007 Easter Award promotion which organized by YAHOO.

From YAHOO International Lottery program.Your name "email address"
was attached to ticket number; 47061725  07056490902 serial number
7741137002 09/06/2004 This batch draws the lucky  numbers as follows
2-9-22-23-24-30 bonus number 5, which consequently won the lottery in the
second category.

 

You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of (One Million British Pounds.(£1,000,000.00) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 474061725/04 from the total cash prize of £33.208,000.00 shared amongst 166 (One Hundred and Sixty Six) lucky winners, based on their category.

 

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn form Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.

 

Your email address falls within our United Kingdom representative office in London.
As indicated in your play coupon and your  prize of ( £1,000,000.00) will be released to you from this regional branch office in London.

 

Please do contact Dr James Andason with this information’s

 

BATCH NUMBER:

 

REFERENCE NUMBER:

 

PIN:   

                        

FULL NAME;    

      

CONTACT ADDRESS;

 

COUNTRY;

 

TELEPHONE NUMBER;

 

FAX NUMBER;

 

MARITAL STATUS;

 

OCCUPATION;

 

AGE;

 

SEX;

 

Dr.James Andason.(M.D)
YAHOO INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

TEL;+44-703-183-7240

EMAIL;james_andason@representative.com

EMAIL;james_andason@hotmail.co.uk

 

 

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed on or before a short period of time from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

 

 

Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,  

 

               

  
Dr. (Mrs.) Bagwell.

 

WARNING!

Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.

You may also receive similar e-mails from people potraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, Kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

 

Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned

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