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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "honda car international promotion program" (no such lottery exists)
• 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: HONDA LOTTERY <richardxx@emsergipe.com>
Reply-To: honda27_claims@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 13:48:38 -0300
Subject: congratulations you just emerge our prize winner




HONDA COMPANY UK®.
An Affiliate of Honda Uk.
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
LONDON, UK.

AWARD NOTIFICATION
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited
results of the HONDA CAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM held on 7th may, 2007.
You were entered as dependent clients with: Reference Number HONDA:652-662
and Secret pin code x7pwyz2007 and. Your email address attached to the ticket number:
2752246896 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won
the sweepstake in the first category,in four parts. You have been approved for a
payment of £150,000.00 (One hundred and fifty thousand Great British Pounds)
credited to file reference number:HONDA:652-662 and HONDA FR-V CAR . This is
from a total cashprize of Ten million pounds shared among
all our international winners in all categories.
CONGRATULATION!!!!!!

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 250,000 email addresses drawn

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