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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found 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!
• 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.
  • dr_jimros@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MR JOHN PHILIP <results-13@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:54:29 +0100
Subject:
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THE YAHOO!!! LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INCBarley House Harold Road,Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te,United Kingdom.REG NO: Y! /090/102/4
WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,
We are please to announce you as one of the eight lucky winners in the 4th- category of the Yahoo!!! Free-Lotto draw held on the 23rd of MAY 2007. All Eight winning addresses were selected through Computer ballot system drawn which is fully based on an electronic selection from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses of all the Yahoo Mail/Hotmail/Aol etc Subscribers from all over the world which consequently won you the huge sum of GBP£500,000.00(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLINGS). Your email address emerged along side Severn others as a category to winner in this year's Annual.

The Yahoo!!! Lottery 2007 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, IBM, the Intel Group, Toyota, Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh .And mostly by the UNITED KINGDOM Government. The Yahoo!!! E-MAIL free lottery draw is held once a year. And is so organized to encourage the use of Yahoo Mail Internet World wide and computers. And also to advertise the YAHOO!!! World wide.

To View Some Of Our Past Lucky Winner Click:**http://img.timeinc.net/TFK/media/news/2006a/060222_lottery_hor.jpg**http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/09/23/lottery-winners-inside.jpg**http://www.louisianalottery.com/assets/images/newsroom/Lotto%20Winners/CarlosCase2.jpg**http://www.javoue.com/presse/yahoo_javoue.jpg
We are proud to say that over 14 Million pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries world wide. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of GBP£500,000.00(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLINGS) only. It’s it a promo to encourage the use of Yahoo! mail world wide.

To File Your Claim, please contact our Fiduciary Agent:
CONTACT: DR. JIM MORRIS
E-MAIL::dr_jimros@hotmail.com
The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:
(i).Winning Numbers: (37)(ii). Email ticket number: Y! FL754/22/76(iii). Lotto code number: Y!FL09622UK (IV). The file Ref number:FL/04/736207152/UK (vii).Notification code:34.78UY/Y!/UK(Viii). LUCKY No: 2 - 9 - 23 - 35 - 46 - 54 Bonus Number 14
WARNING!!! You are advised to keep your winning information confidential till you claim your prize money. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!

To File Your Claim, please contact our Fiduciary Agent:

CONTACT: DR. JIM MORRIS
E-MAIL:dr_jimros@hotmail.com

Yours Sincerely,
Mr john phillip
YAHOO! Cor-ordinator
LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION
Copyright 2007 Yahoo! Lottery Prize Award. All right Reserved.
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