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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.
  • +448717158422 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447939149730
• 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.
  • eurpwintnatlott@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: eur sp <eurspinnatintld@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <eurpwintnatlott@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:47:18 -0400
Subject: Eurspinn


EUROPEAN NATIONAL EXTRA AWARD PROGRAMEURSPINN INT'L AWARD DEPARTMENT UNITED KINGDOMFROM:THE PROMOTIONAL EUROSPINN AWARD DEPARTMENT.Eurspinn Ref. Number: EUN1Q/001/002/0007Eurspinn Batch Number: 9110407EU07 CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dear Winner, We
are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw
of our European Spinn International Programs.The online Cyber draws was
conducted from an exclusive list of 40,000,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet. NO TICKETS WAS SOLD.Your e-mail
address has been attached to ticket number 11321473-0001 with serial
number 6213856 drew lucky numbers 11-0-12-09 which consequently won in
the 1st category "A", you have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay out of £850.000.00 (Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds) in
cash credited to your File EURSPINN Ref. Number:EUN1Q/001/002/0007
which is the winning payout for list category "A" winners, This is from
the total prize shared each of the 5 international winners in this
category. CONGRATULATIONS ones more!!!Your prize award has
been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you
upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations verifications,
validations and satisfactory report Due to mix up of some numbers and
names, we ask that you keep your winning information strickly from
public notice until your claims has been processed and your money
Remitted to you. This is part of our safe security protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from over 10,000,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual
email addresses and names from all over the world, names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia as part of International Promotions Program.This
promotional program takes place once a year and promoted by the
software and internet giant corporations to compensate some few
individuals with website and email addresses, Please note that your
lucky winning numbers falls within our European booklet representative
office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon to file in for yourclaims, please contact your processing claims officer. Mr. Nicholas WayneProcessing Eurspinn Claims Manager,Eurspinn International Program4-5 Broughton Street Cheetham UrmstonLE2 5BB London,United Kingdom .Tel: +44 793 914 9730Fax: +44 871 715 8422Email: eurpwintnatlott@aim.com Best Regards.Mrs. Pauline Jacquelyn Button.Eurospinnpw Int'l Award Program,DIRECTOR PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM. COPYRIGHT (C) *1992-2007* EUROPEAN-SPINN PW INT'L PROGRAM- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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