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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • +447045721751 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • agentbrowncole@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • agentbrown2cole@walla.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MRS LORA QUEENTH <mrsloraqueenth22@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:26:57 -0600
Subject: DEAR WINNER.















Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Four Hundred and Fourty Five Thousand Great Britain Pounds (GBP445,000) for the 2007 Prize Promotion which is Organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO! collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo,Walla, Aol, Gmail,Webmails,Hotmail, and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: YPA/07-43658 REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522 PIN: 1206
These numbers fall within the England Location file and you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him;

Agent Name: Rev. Cole Brown
E-Mail: agentbrowncole@yahoo.co.uk
agentbrown2cole@walla.com
Tel: +44 704 572 1751


As soon as our agent hears from you, he shall commence the process that will facilitate the release of your fund to you. You are therefore advice to furnish your claims agent with the below informations:

FULL NAME:......................................................
COUNTRY:........................................................
HOME ADDRESS:................................................
MOBILE NUMBER:...............................................
HOME NUMBER:.................................................
AGE:................................................................
SEX:................................................................
MARITAL STATUS:............................................
OCCUPATION:..................................................
NET INCOME PER MONTH....................................
LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE.......................................
BANK INFORMATION. YOUR BANK NAME ...........................................
ACCOUNT NUMBER...........................................
VALID RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.............................

Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,
Dr. (Mrs.) Lora Queenth.
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WARNING! Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim. You may also receive similar e-mails from people potraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, Kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned.
_________________________________________________________________
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