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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:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • linus_agent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • linuskhumalo_id@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • johnagent_02@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: yahoo award <w_uk29@web.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:44:09 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!






(Yahoo! News - Lottery) Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results You won £820.000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!


Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 23th of June, 2007. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of £820,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED, TWENTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING )This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £820,000 will be released to you through our corresponding assing payment bank been (NED BANK OF AFRICA) Stated below are your identification numbers:BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2006234522
PIN: 1206
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZEYahoo’s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows: Agent: Mr LINUS KHUMALO6th Floor life centre 29 commisioner street, Corner west street Johannesburg 2001Email linus_agent@yahoo.co.uk [mailto:linus_agent@yahoo.co.uk]
[mailto:linuskhumalo_id@yahoo.co.uk]Email linuskhumalo_id@myway.comTel : + 277 3529 9740 [mailto:johnagent_02@yahoo.co.uk]

You are to send the completed verification form below to the our Agent in Africa whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money through our corresponding payment bank (NED BANK OF AFRICA) Congratulations once more!! 1. Full name...............................2. Country..................................
3. Contact Address.....................
4. Telephone Number.................5. fax Number............................
5. Marital Status.........................
6. Occupation.............................7. My Date of birth......................
8. Sex.................................9) Ref: No…………………………10) Batch: No……………………….11)PIN:.......................12) Nationality ................13) Beneficiary……………………14) Bank Address…………………15) Company Details where you work……..16) Account Details where to Transfer your Winning Fund. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from 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 unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel.
Yours Sincerely,
[http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/_javascript:Zoom(290075)]

Dr WILLIAM GERRI (PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
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