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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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: event promo <micro_events0006@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 06:36:31 -0400
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!



ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPOINNOVAZIONE ACLIOrganizzazione Non Governativa delleACLI per la Cooperazione InternazionaleSede Nazionalehttp://www.ipsia.acli.it/Via G. Marcora, 18/20 - 00153 RomaISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPO IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!Attention Winner,We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the ISTITUTO PACESVILUPPO INNOVAZIONE ACLI yearly donations. Organisers of the United Nations,European Union And Ecowas Yearly Donations.Your e-mail address attached to TICKET NUMBER: 1416-4612-750 withSERIAL NUMBER:3187-17 drew the LUCKY DREW NUMBERS:31-17-8-28-55 (bonusno.25),which subsequently won you the donation in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $750,000(SevenHundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars) in cash credited to file .This isfrom a total cash prize of ( $750,000 000 ), shared amongst the onethousand(100) lucky winners in this category.All participants for the online version were selected randomly fromWorld Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over100,000 unions, associations, corporate bodies and consumer shops inall localities. That are listed online. This promotion takes place yearly.Your lucky winning number falls within our European bookletrepresentativeoffice in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this,your $750,000 (Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars) will be released toyou by any of our payment offices in Europe, Africa Or America.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate therelease of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons,you areadvised to keep your donation information confidential till yourDonation is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manneryou deemfit to claim your donation.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming andunwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.To file for your claim,Please contact our agent.Rav.Harry Green.EMAIL ADDRESS: thedonations_agentpromo@yahoo.comeavour to contact him with the following informations:1. Full Names:..........................................2. Contact Address:..................................3. Telephone Number:...............................4. Age:..............5. Sex:.................6. Nationality:..........................7. Occupation:.........................8. Donation information i,e ticket number, batchnumber, reference number,serial numbere.t.cYours faithfully,McGbenga (Sir) FarlaneDonations co-ordinator and chairperson,ISTITUTO PACE SVILUPPOINNOVAZIONE ACLI
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