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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 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.
  • leopoldmark2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EUHND LOTTERY" <awardeuhnd.lottery2007@rediffmail.com>
Date: 23 Apr 2007 09:24:56 -0000
Subject: Award Notification.




EUROPEAN HND UNION NATIONAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

DUMENSTRAAT B56,1002BS AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLAND.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HND UNION LOTTERY: CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded final draws held on&nbsp; (23rd April, 2007)&nbsp; by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.

Your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won 1000, 000.00{One Million Great Britain Pounds} each in the COCACOLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.
It was released today (20th April, 2007) and&nbsp; your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number(BT:12052006/20) .&nbsp;The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, by the board of director.&nbsp; MR: Leopold MarkEMAIL: leopoldmark2@yahoo.com
INTERNATIONAL WINNERS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.DUMENSTRAAT B56, 1002BS AMSTERDAM,
&nbsp;Yours Faithfully,Philip CurtManagement
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