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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:
  • "fudiciary" (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.
  • +34696111545 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • dxseguros@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo Award Promotion <infomail_award@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:13:04 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!



You won $820,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!=20
(Yahoo! Mail) Messenger=20
YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY(arabtrans@arabtrans.com src=3D"http://www.arabtrans.c=
om/email.gif) [http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login=3F/ym/Compose=3FTo=3Darabtrans=
@arabtrans.com]
CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $820,000.00!=20

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is rando=
mly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prize=
s from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (E=
ight Hundred And twenty Thousand US Dollars) ($820,000.00) for the month o=
f July Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo.messenger.com [ht=
tp://yahoo.messenger.com/] every month. YAHOO! collects all the mail id of=
the people that are online, among the millions that subscribe to the worl=
d email we only select five people every month as our winners through elec=
tronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating =
you for been one of the people selected.All participant were selected thro=
ugh a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail ad=
dresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, =
Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which i=
s conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinat=
ional companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in =
the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your detai=
ls(e-mail address) falls within our Spanish representative office in Spain=
, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $820,000.00 USD will =
be released to you from this regional branch office in Spain,
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year h=
igh stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers....................... Batch number.=
....................Lwh 09445 Lotto number.......................Lwh09446 =
Winning number...................Lwh09447 To begin your claims, kindly con=
tact the Fudiciary Agent MR DAVID JOHNSON of DUMEX SEGUROS S.A SPAIN email=
address [http://us.f510.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose=3FDMid=3D602=5F11626968=5F26859=
3=5F420=5F52=5F0=5F78649=5F-1=5F0&amp;YY=3D56395&amp;y5beta=3Dyes&amp;y5beta=3Dyes&amp;inc=3D2=
5&amp;order=3Ddown&amp;sort=3Ddate&amp;pos=3D0&amp;view=3Da&amp;head=3Db&amp;box=3DDra=
ft]dxseguros@aim.com [mailto:dxseguros@aim.com] Tel:+34-696-111-545 You ar=
e required to forward Them with the following details: 1.FULL NAME2.COUNTR=
Y OF ORIGIN3.PRESENT ADDRESS4.SEX5.DATE OF BIRTH6.AGE 7.OCCUPATION8.TELEPH=
ONE NUMBER9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)10.MARITAL STATUS11.WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NU=
MBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.12 THE MONTH YOU WON......13 AMOUNT WON.............=
...... As soon as you contact your agent, he will advise you on what to do=
in order to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!! For securit=
y reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential fro=
m the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.=
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarr=
anted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial =
personnel. Yours Sincerely, [http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login=3F/=5Fjavascri=
pt:Zoom(290075)]
Dr. MOORE (PHD)LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.The Yahoo.com [http://yahoo.com/] staff
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