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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (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.
  • cordinator_112@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • coordinator_apla@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Asian Pacific Lotter Org" <aplo_org007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cordinator_113@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 14:39:12 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!!!!

 

 

                   ASIA PACIFIC INT'L LOTTERY

                                                

ASIA PACIFIC INT'L LOTTERY ASSOCIATION
Soi Nui Klong Toei Klm 15 Wattana Bangkok 10200

FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT.

BATCH: EGS/ 22504002/03: REFERENCE: 15/0018/I PD

ATTENTION: CONGRATULATIONS!

RE: PRIZE/AWARD NOTIFICATION.

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our end of year winnier of the  ASIA PACIFIC INT'L LOTTERY ASSOCIATION held on the 20th of February, 2007.The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three winners in the category \"A\" with the following winning information: You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000 (One million Dollar).

 

This is from a total cash prize of 25,020.225.00, shared among the twenty-five international winners in this category. the lucky numbers:

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

REF: N.EGS/3662367114/13.

TICKET No: 085-12876077-09.

To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Co-ordinator as follows,

NAME: Sirichai  Paibhoon
TEL: 00(66) 8-31774316
EMAIL: cordinator_112@yahoo.co.in

            coordinator_apla@hotmail.com

          

Sincerely,

Dr.Helen Chew Loon,
President
Asia Pacific Int'l Lottery Org

Chinawat  Pinn

Vice President
Asia Pacific Int'l Lottery Org

                           

RECENT                  $1.000,000.00 WINNERS!

                   

                                      

                                                                     
       

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