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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Newton Howard" <fiduciarynewtonhoward@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:06:08 +0100 (BST)
Subject: DO FILL AND SEND TO US THE INFORMATION'S REQUIRED


Master card No: 5148 6547 8940 6543
Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178
Ballot winning No: 6782
Reference No: 638994
Dear Winner,

First of all we at the Promotion Board wish to congratulate you for being a winner of the online lottery promotion.As earlier stated your e mail address drew the lucky numbers which was randomly selected through a protected worldwide web,please do not be stunned as you may be thinking that you have not applied for any lottery.Your email address as well as that of many more millions of people were extracted from this worldwide web and you and nine others emerged lucky winners of £6,000,600.00, SIX MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Equivalent to, ($11,064,000 USD), Eleven Million, sixty four thousand US Dollars each,thats a grand total of 6,000,600.00.

You are in order to begin the transfer process required to fill the form attached to this mail and send back to us promptly as the informations provided by you will aid the quick and protected transfer,moreso this is the authorithy my superiors has handed to me and the prceedure that past winners have followed and claimed their prize.Finally,this is a lottery and not really your entittlement,so if you are willing to claim your winnings,contact us.

Thank you and do have a nicecday.

Agent Mr. Newton Howard,
For the Master Internation Maga Jackpot board.

FULL NAME:
WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:
FULL ADDRESS:
SEX:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
TEL:
MOBILE:
COUNTRY:
HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE: ............. (Identification on delivery)
AMOUNT WON..........................
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/ INDIVIDUAL:
..................................................................................................................................
................................................................
____________________________ ___________________
Date. Signature.

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, I’ll send you the contact
information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the
release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

Sincerely yours,
Mr. Newton Howard.




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