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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:

• 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.
  • +2348024682479 (Nigeria, 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.
  • remirezcruz1@yahoo.se

Fraud email example:

From: Christopher Memo <chrissonofmemo5@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:32:20 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL WON PRIZE.


You won $100.000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! Messenger with Htmail/Msn CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON $100.000.00! Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 50 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of ($100,000.00) for the YEARLY LOTTERY WIN PROMOTION which is organized by yahoo messenger.com every year. YAHOO MESSENGER collects all the mail id of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribed to yahoo we only select twelve people every year as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying.We are therefore congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada , Australia,United States, Asia, Europe ,Middle East , Africa and Oceanic as part of our international promotions programme which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our AMERICAN representative office in USA, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$100,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in USA. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE These are your identification numbers Batch number.....................06/05/046 Code number.......................23109222 Winning number...................27856780 To begin your claims, kindly contact the YAHOO CLAIMS AGENT, Dr Remirez Cruz Remirezcruz1@yahoo.se +2348024682479 you are required to foward him with the following details: 1.FULL NAME 2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3.PRESENT ADDRESS. 4.DATE OF BIRTH 5.OCCUPATION 6.TELEPHONE NUMBER 7.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY) 8.MARITAL STATUS 9.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND CODE NUMBER. 10. SCANNED INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LICENCE. As soon as you contact the Agent, he will advice you on what to do in order to get your prize money. 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Congratulations once more!! Yours Sincerely DR Karl Barbin (PHD) MANAGEMENT

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