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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.
  • +447045721229 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • grantpaymentunit@oued.info (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • grantpaymentunit07@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • londoninterpol@london.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "TOTALFINA FOUNDATION ." <totalfinafoundation02@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:13:25 -0600
Subject: GRANT AWARD NOTIFICATION




Fly Emirates
TOTAL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION UK PLC
Elgin/Franklin Foundation Grant Program


United Kingdom Office
40 Clarendon Road Watford
Hertfordshire WD17 1TQ
London,UK.

Ref: PBL/CN/6654/CP.Coupon No.PBL2348974321
MOTTO : ALLEVIATING POVERTY ACROSS THE GLOBE!


Totalfina Approval


Attn.Sir/Madam


NOTICE OF GRANT AWARD



It is our pleasure to inform you that you've emerged one of the winners of the 6th May, 2007 UK Totalfina International Grant Program. This program is based on random sampling of email IDs on online.Your e-mail ID attached to ticket number 47061726 07056490903, serial number 7741137003 drew the following lucky numbers 5-13-33-37-43 with bonus number 18, and consequently won you the grant prize.You hereby have been approved for a lump sum payment of £550,000.00GBP cash credit to file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from a total cash prize of £11,000,000.00 GBP shared amongst twenty)lucky winners in the First Category. All participants were selected through a sorting and filtering program designed by Dr Philip Megalith from a pool of 50,000,000 (fifty million) e-mail addresses and names online. For further information on how to claim your grant prize, you should contact our grant payment officer via the contact emails(grantpaymentunit@oued.info/grantpaymentunit07@yahoo.com) and/or telephone(+447045721229) and provide him the required details below:

PERSONAL INFORMATION
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Age:
4.Sex:
5.Marital Status:
6.Occupation:
7.Nationality:
8.Country of Residence:
9.Telephone Number(Country Code)-(Area Code)-(Phone Number):
10.Mobile Number(Country Code)-(Mobile Number):
11.Fax Number:
12.A Scanned Copy of Your Valid Identification Proof(e.g,Int'l Passport or National ID Card)
Note that as soon as you contacted our grant officer,you'll be given your donation number with which to collect your grant.Also,do remeber to quote your qualification (G8-222-6747,EU-900-56) in all your correspondences.
Warning:all funds not claimed within 21 days from the date this notification was sent will be nullified.
The Totalfina Foundation UK was set up in the year 2000 by Totalfina Multinational Corporation.
On behalf of our board,kindly accept our warmest congratulations!
Regards,
Mr.Chris West
Deputy Director/Grant Co-ordinator
Totalfina Petroleum Foundation Internation

WARNING!
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Any mail of this kind received with any other trade mark or address should be forwarded to londoninterpol@london.com. This to enanble us fight the activities of internet scammers who associate themselves with lottery or grant programmes,among others,to defraud unsuspecting persons.Thanks in advance for your cooperation in this regard.


Copyright © 1994-2007 Totalfina UK Grant International Lottery Inc.All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline




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