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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • msceciliakone@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: illinois lott2007 <illinoislott2007@hotmail.fr>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:33:33 +0200
Subject: Congratulations your email address has won the sum of
US$500,000.00(usd)



ELECTRONIC MAIL WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: ILLINOIS, CHICAGO.
DATE: 05/31/2007. Ref: 575061725 Batch: 2056490906/168
Winning no: 1-5-21-46-51-29, Bonus no.X4
Lotto type: POWERBALL.
Click the web, to check the winning number.http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_numbers.asp


Congratulations your email address has won the sum of US$500,000.00(usd)
Dear Winner,

The entire Multi-State Lottery Association feel delighted to inform you of your e-mail lottery prize win released on the 26th of May, 2007. We feel obliged to let you know that this organization has been a lottery organization since its establishment in 1987.
The only difference between you and other category of winners is that they played but your prize winning was as a result of the maiden edition of the e- mail lottery (no stakes involved) billed to hold every 10 years.This is part of the organization's bid to show gratitude to the global society for their patronage since the last 20 years. Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number: 35411370502, serial number: 453768765, batch number: 2056490906/168. This batchdrew the lucky numbers as follows 1-5-21-46-51-29, Bonus no.X4, which consequently won the POWERBALL EMAIL LOTTERY and should be processed from our regional centre in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.
Sequel to this, you have won the sum of US$500,000.00(usd) in cash credit file ref ILL/CH47509/02.
All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our Future stakes.

FOR THE ROUTINE CLAIM OF YOUR POWERBALL EMAIL LOTTERY SIMPLY CONTACT OUR AGENT:


Ms Cecilia Kone at : msceciliakone@myway.com
to file for your claim.

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number as to help us locate your file easily and to forward your winning to your regional payment center allocated to your winning .
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by dubious or unscrupulous characters.

Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of Multi-State Lottery Association.
Congratulations once more! Yours Sincerely,
Sue E. Dooley
(Co-ordinator/Drawing Manager).
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
FOR THE ROUTINE CLAIM OF YOUR PRIZE SIMPLY CONTACT OUR AGENT:
Ms Cecilia Kone at : msceciliakone@myway.com
to file for your claim.
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