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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 office" (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.
  • rev_oscabetram_agent@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Canadian Lottery Draw <canadianlotodrawlsit07@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <rev_oscabetram_agent@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:33:21 -0600
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION"$250,000.00 CONTACT YOUR AGENT



CANADA LOTTO-LORE 6/49 Canadian Lottery (LottEssexo lore) Northshire NG4 1SQ Ontario, Canada.
www.lottolore.com

WINNING NOTIFICATION Congratulations, We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 22nd September 2007 from the Canada Lotto lore International Lottery pro gramme. Which is fully based on an electronic selection
of winners using their e-mail addresses from different sites.Your email
address was attached to ticket number; 17212, serial number 7741137002.This batch draws the lucky numbers of 5 8 12 15 39 47 Bonus 40, which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby have been approved a sum payment of USD$250,000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in cash, credited to file Ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst six lucky winners in this category. 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 Oceania as part of our international promotions program. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by the Microsoft Co-operation World wide as part of their social responsibility to promote the use of internet world wide.

Further
more details your(e-mail address) falls within our African
representative office as indicated in your play coupon and your prize
of USD$250,000 will be released to you from our approved Paying Bank.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of
year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. Your Winning
fund of USD$250.000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) has been
insured with the Paying Bank, with REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 and will
be immediately released or delivered to you, when you are through with
the official process involved with the bank. It
will be processed on your behalf by our Claims Officer in charge
of European zone (REVEREND OSCAR BET RAM). Your E-mail address should be
used in all correspondence with your claims officer, you are to contact
your claims officer via email and phone call as we are promoting the
use of E-mail. Also you have the right to call him to confirm your
winning Details. Please note that we have instructed that you will
receive your prize money in full of USD$250,000. Therefore you
should make sure that you follow all the rules accordingly for the
processing and release of your prize to you without any delay.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our European Claims Officer Reverend Oscar Betram Email at rev_oscabetram_agent@yahoo.com
Please
make sure that you quote your reference, batch and winning numbers
which can be found on the winning notification, as well as your full
name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily. 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 personnels. Note,
all winnings MUST be claimed within 21 days from the date of this
notification. Unclaimed funds will be returned to the national treasury
for our next draw. Congratulations once again on your winning!!! Best Regards.



Congratulations once more from the entire Management and Staff of Canada Lotto-Lore Co-operation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. Craig Mundie (Chief Research Officer Lotto-Lore Cooperation) Past winners round the world with full of excitement. Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weider (Manager Domestic Finance Operations),
Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs.
Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen
Boer (Chairman).

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