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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 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.
  • +34671489313 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • informationoo@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lottery Co-ordinator" <euromillionslotterygames@jlmail.com>
Reply-To: informationoo@excite.com
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 05:56:06 -0500
Subject: CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT!





EUROMILLIONES ESPANA INTERNACIONAL SWEEPSTAKE
UNITED KINGDOM. LONDON/MADRID SPAIN
BANK OF ENGLAND/MICROSOFT HOUSE, LONDON.
DIRECTOR: Mr. WALTERS MARTINEZ
REF NO: TGA-4GA-65389.
MICRO (LOTTERY) CHIP NO: 9465021
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD PROMOTION.
MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT EMAIL LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM/MADRID SPAIN

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY
'B' DRAWS

Finally today, we announce the winners of the MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT EMAIL
LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on 10, May 2007. Your company or your personal
e-mail address, won in the second lottery category 002.You are therefore
been approved for lump sums pay of £2,800,000.00 TWO MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND POUNDS. Equivalent to ($5.4000) Five Million,Four Hundred thousand
US Dollars. In cash Credited to file REF NO: TGA-4GA-65389. and MICRO
(LOTTERY) CHIP NO: 9465021, You are the second lucky winner of the total
winners of 10.

You all won £2.8,million Pounds each.All the 10 participants were selected
through our Microsoft computer ballot system (MCBS) drawn from each
continent, as part of International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, to promote
the use of emails all over the World, and to promote the use of Microsoft
Office. Your funds (certified Cashiers cheque) have been insured with your
REF NO: TGA-4GA-65389. To claim your winning prize (£2.8,million pounds),
you must first, contact the claims department by email for Processing and
remittance of your prize money to you. The claims processor is:

File/Claims Officer
Mr. Walters Martinez
Financier Director,
Tel: +34-671-489-313
Fax: +34-911-518-488
Email:-informationoo@excite.com

Endeavour to quote your Qualification numbers (REF NO: TGA-4GA-65389) in all
your correspondence with Mr. Walters Martinez Please note that this
MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT EMAIL LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS are administered by a
USA Bank and therefore subject to USA Banking Laws. You are by all means
advised to keep this whole information confidential until you have
collected your donation,This is to avoid double and unqualified claim, due
to beneficiaries informing third parties on cash grant donation. Please
furnished with the following informations.

On behalf of the Board, kindly accept our warmest congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Tamara Groove
20 kensington church st
London w8 4ep, UK.
Online cordinator@Action-Aid, UK
Copyright 1994-2007 MS-WORD EMAIL LOTTERY INC. UK


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