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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:
  • "claims 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 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.
  • +447045723751 (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.
  • revfr.miniragarayeva@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Yahoo! ." <mail.betalotteryinc@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: revfr.miniragarayeva@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 03:29:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Congratulations! You have won $350,000.00 USD organized by YAHOO! UK & IRELAND INC..







Yahoo! Mail Lottery Inc.

# 1-3 Norton Folgate Near Livepool Street
Station in East London,
United Kingdom.

http://www.yahoo.co.uk
Dear Lucky Winner,

We are delighted to inform you that you have won Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars ($350,000.00 USD) in Yahoo! Mail Lottery Inc program which was organized by YAHOO! UK & IRELAND INC for the introduction of the New Microsoft Windows Live Mail Beta which all internet users are required to switch onto.

YAHOO! UK & IRELAND INC arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to internet. We only select Five (5) people per annually as our Winner's through Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the user applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected. This lottery is limited to the receipient .Com, .Net, Gmail only.

THESE ARE YOUR WINNING/IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:

Batch number..................YBM-EBS-390AF
Ref number....................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number..............YBM-EBS-798AF

These numbers above fall within our AFRICAN FILE, therefore you are requested to contact Our Claims Agent and send your Winning/Identification Numbers and Personal Information to them for more verifications and to facilitate/ process the transfer of your winning prize money with the appointed paying bank.

CONTACT OUR CLAIMS AGENT:


Name: Rev. Father Minira Garayeva
Tel: +447045723751
Email: revfr.miniragarayeva@yahoo.co.uk


PERSONAL INFORMATIONS

1: FULL NAME..............
2: NATIONALITY....................
3: CONTACT ADDRESS.................
4: TELEPHONE NUMBER...............
5: FAX NUMBER......................
6: MARITAL STATUS............
7: OCCUPATION.............
8: AGE...................
9: SEX...............

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African File booklet representative office in NIGERIA as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your $500,000 United States Dollars would be released to you by the paying bank in Nigeria. 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 back YAHOO! UK & IRELAND INC unclaimed. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.


We cherish all of internet users and want to assist you in any way possible. Thank you for being a valued Lucky winner.




Once again congratulations !!!


Yours in Service,





If you have questions or wish to claim your prize money kindly contact our claims agent see the instructions at the body of this message Email at revfr.miniragarayeva@yahoo.co.uk?



YAHOO! UK & IRELAND INC.! YAHOO! UK & IRELAND INC.!



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