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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: ITALIAN NATIONAL LOTTERY <italianlotterydept101@yahoo.it>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:56:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: ITALIAN LOTTERY CLAIMS DEPARTMENT(NOTICE TO WINNER)


Attn:Winner,

This is a vivid discription on homw you emerged as a winner .All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100 000 unions associations and corporate bodies that are listed online.This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Italian booklet representative office in Italy as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this your 1 000 000 one million Euro would be released to you will also need to indicate

claim.informations needed are:
Full Names.............................
Contact Address........................
Phone Number...........................
Age....................................
Sex....................................
Occupation.............................
Winning Batch Number...................
Country................................

I advise you to fill in the informations needed to effect the release of your winnings

Regards,.
Mario Givanni

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