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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:
  • "tax clearance" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "clearance certificate" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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 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.
  • uwehoff@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Carl A. Mayer" <info_web-powerball-lottery@web.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:03:56 +0200
Subject: WEB POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY ( Winnning Notification )


WEB POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC.
Bahnhof Frankfurter Berg 17-19, 60433 Frankfrut Germany WINNING NOTIFICATION Dear Winner,

Germany and American private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, WEB POWERBALL LOTTER Group International, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 16th June 2007 WEB POWERBALL LOTTERT -Wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in Germany

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No. Gry 2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a cash prize of €750.000 ( SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND Euros ). The WEB POWERBALL LOTTO Group, have approved a payout of your Winning prize which will be remunerated directly to you by our official Fiduciary Agent. Complete assistance will be rendered and additional information will be given for the claims of your Winning prize.

WINNING INFO:
Amount Won: 750,000.00 Euros
Coupon Number: Gry 2348974321
Reference Number: Gry/ CN/ 6654/ CP
Date of draw: 16th June 2007
Note:- You will be require to pay for the issuance of your Tax Clearance Certificate only. The certificate is your legal prove/guarantee which will be submitted to the bank for the remittance of your Winning Prize. To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings prize, NORWEST FINANCE AND SECURITY COMPANY DE CONTACT PRESONName:- Uwe Hoffmann Email:- uwehoff@excite.com [http://us.f558.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=uwehoff@excite.com]
Phone:- 0049 1628 260 533 You must contact the appointed agent with this Verification Form. VERIFICATION FORM
NAME:..................................................
ADDRESS:.............................................
AMOUNT WON:.............................
REF # :........................................COUPON #...................................DATE OF DRAW # ...................................OCCUPATION ......................................AGE:......................................................SEX.......................................................TEL:......................................................FAX......................................................COUNTRY.............................................

The Validity period of the winnings is for 30 working days hence you are expected to make your claims immediately, any claim not made before this date will be returned to the MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND HACIENDA as unclaimed. Once again congratulations!!!
Regards,

Prof. Carl A. Mayer(Group Coordinator)



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