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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "the bmw automobile company" (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • +447035900290 (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.
  • bmwgroup_internationalawardnotic@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: bmwgroup_internationalawardnotic@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:07:58 +1200
Subject: Ref/001/007598590000/11


Dear Winner,

Ref/001/007598590000/11

The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile
Company after a Successful Production and Transaction year 2006, wishes to congratulate you on your success as the STAR
PRIZE WINNER in this years' BMW Automobile International Awareness Promotion(IAP) held June,2007 in London United
Kingdom, England. This makes you the proud owner of a brand new BMW 5 Series, M Sport Saloon car and a cash prize of
=a3750,000 GBP(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds). The car comes with a special BMW Insurance Cover
for one whole year, that is, till the next promotion in 2008. It also comes with a one year warranty and FREE repairs at
any BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY depot or service station worldwide.

DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE VEHICLE.
YEAR: 2007, MODEL: 550i M Sport Saloon

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.)
from a database of over a million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email address was attached to a ticket
number and your email address with Ticket number:5647600545188 and serial number: BMWP/556543450906 was randomly
selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize winners.

To claim your prizes, kindly fill the verification form below and send it to the Claims Manager, Mr Holton Paterson of
our claims department through email, stating your receipt of this notification. He has been mandated to offer you
assistance and facilitate the urgent delivery of your prizes.
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Holton Paterson
Fiduciary Claims Department (FCD),
Email:bmwgroup_internationalawardnotic@yahoo.co.uk
Direct tell: +44-703-590-0290
FAX: +44-208-181-6298
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FILL THE VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.YOUR FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.COUNTRY:
4.SEX:
5.AGE:
6.MARITAL STATUS:
7.OCCUPATION:
8 E-MAIL ADDRESS:
9.TELEPHONE NUMBER:

Congratulations once more, and keep trusting BMW Automobile for top quality automobiles.


Regards,
Mr. Larry Duke.

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