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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 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.
  • pbl.results07@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: he1@mchsi.com (Powerball International Prize)
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:23:05 +0000
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE (Your Email Address Has Won)

POWERBALL LOTTO. BV
POWERBALL LOTTO - Wheel Email-Games 2007,

Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

POWERBALL PRIZE WINNER NOTICE

Europe/America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors,
POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the
final draw result of the 18th Of July, 2007 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game which
was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The UNITED
KINGDOM.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes
based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage
the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. Its major aim is to
promote music, theater, art,literature,projects in the social and political
arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher
education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon
number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize winners Your
email ID identified with coupon No.PBL2348974321 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 consultation cash prize of £ 2,910,000 GB
Pounds (Two Million, Nine Hundred and Ten Thousand Great British Pounds
Sterlings) only.

The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consultation cash
prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency
Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and
provide additional information and processes for the claims of your
consultation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information
Officer Mr Roberts Scharfs who has been assigned to assist you. You are to
contact him with the following details for the release of your winnings.

Claims Requirements:
1.Name in full:
2.Home Address:
3.Age:
4.Occupation:
5.Phone Number:
6.Present Country:
7.Sex:

DUE PROCESS UNIT:
Claims Agent: Mr. Roberts Scharfs
Claims Unit: Powerball House, 23 Broodford street, Manchester L70 1NL
Email: pbl.results07@yahoo.it

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consoltation prize
winning, we hope you will part take our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel
Email-games.

Regards
Mrs. Tara McMeans.
(Group Coordinator)

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