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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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: "pumastore@terra.es" <pumastore@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:49:43 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: READ ME


Puma, Spain Lottery Program
Puma Store, Calle Fuencaral 34
Madrid 28004

PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION
===========================

Dear Lucky Winner,

Thank you for participating in the Puma, Spain 2007 lottery program. Our lottery program selection has been performed finally at the Puma International Complex, Madrid, Spain. Puma, Spain is a joint Euro/American private lottery promotion registered and organized in accordance with the World Lottery Regulation Act (WLRA) and the Spanish Gaming Board.

The Puma,Spain Lottery Organizing Committee is pleased to officially notify you of the status of your email address application. An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your email promotional ticket number puma-13-02-96-09; with serial number puma/027/198 and REF:NO.puma/027/2005 in batch P/3233 randomly drew for the lucky numbers 000-000-1984 which selected your email address as a winner of our lottery program.You have therefore consequently won our lottery in the first batch.

To this extent, we have officially approved a sum payout of € 850,000.00 EUR only to you as our lottery winner. This amount is from the total prize cash of €8,500,000.00EUR randomly distributed among our ten(10) International winners selected by our Lottery Random System Selection (LRSS). All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 email addresses issued from Australia, New Zealand, United States of America, Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, as part of our International Promotional Program. This lottery promo is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public through this medium.

To begin the processing of your prize you are to fill out our claims form and our accredited prize transfer agent will contact you with further details.


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You are also adviced to fill out this claims form.(click to fill)
You will be contacted by our accredited Fudiciary agent one we recieve you application for your payment.

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If you do not contact your claims agent within 7 working days of this notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners are advised to keep their winning details / information from the public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending the transfer / claim by Winner.

Please also note that winners who reside close to people who were affected by the Hurricane Katrina and Rita will be required to donate at least twelve percent (12%) of their winnings to those victims.

Congratulations from me and all staffs of Puma, Spain 2007 lottery program.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Ruth Hudson
Lottery Co-ordinator for The Puma, Spain 2007 Lottery Program
For and on behalf of the Puma, Spain






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