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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)
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +2348061122695 (Nigeria, 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.
  • illion_clitton_agent@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lottery award <mrsdominicadonation2009@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:56:21 +0000
Subject: Your Email Address Has Won $200,000.00 Through Electronic


Your Email Address Has Won $200,000.00 Through Electronic
Balloting System

Dear Sir/Madam,
We the Board Management and staffs of Microsoft World Wide Lotto
London United Kingdom,wishes to bring to your notice the results of the
E-mail Address Ballot Lottery programme held on 4th june 2007. which
you luckily emerged a winner .It is yet to be claimed and you are
getting
the final Notification as regards your winning.

This results is today released to you ,as Your e-mail address attached
to ticket number:56475600545-188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers
and bonus ball number:
which subsequently won you the lotto in the second category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $200,000.00
(TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of $1,200,000.00 to be shared among
the (6)lucky winners in your category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from
over
100,000 unions, associations, individuals and corporate bodies that are
listed online. without the knowledge of the id owners.

This Lotto was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens
in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more, your details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in london, as indicated in your play coupon and
your prize of $200,000.00 will be released to you from our regional
payment Bank In Nigeria as scheduled in our payment schedule order.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE !!!
You are adviced to contact our Cliams Agent and send your contact
informations and fill the form below and send it to our your claim
agent
immediatelywith this email addres On;illion_clitton_agent@yahoo.com
Call for confirmations On:+234 80 61122695,

For informations,Your won prize fund of 200,000.00 Dollars ,shall be
transfered to you into your bank account in your country through our
paying Bank,ELECTRONICS WIRE TRANSFER SYSTEM,you should therefore fill
the below form and send the following relevant requested
informations
to the bank immediately , to enable them process your immediate prize
transfer.

Your Full
Names............................................................

Your Full Address...................................................

Occupation.....................................................................

Nationality.......................................................................

Sex ............................................................

Age................................................................................

Bank
Name........................................................................

Bank
Account......................................................................

Phone
Numer.....................................................................

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.Because this office will not take liability of any
wrong claiming of any winner prize as a result of reaviling your
winning to
any person,plz Be warned.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid unwarranted taking
advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note,
all winnings MUST be claimed before 8th of june 2007. otherwise all
unclaimed funds will be returned and eventually used for the next
lucky
dip.

WINNERS BELOW TWENTY YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/ HER CLAIM IN PROXY
THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS .
Congratulations once again.
Past winners round the world with full of excitment


BELOW ARE THE SPONSORS OF THIS PROGRAM.
Richard Ross (Cod), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations),
Mrs. helen williams(Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James
Williams (Director Verifications /International Credit Board), (claims
department), Mrs. Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen
Boer
(Chairman), Mr.Tom Moore(courier department officer),

Sincerely Yours

David Wong(Dr)
Microsoft Wide Lotto Prize Award Cordinato
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