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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • infowebex7002@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: NOTIFICATION DESK <webexclaims70@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <infowebex7002@yahoo.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:06:17 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!! CLAIM YOUR 2.5 MILLION
DOLLARS..................



FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE INTERNET USERLOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPT.Attn:Lucky Winner, YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR USING THE INTERNET. We are pleased to inform you that one of the best things that canhappen to any Internet user is to be rewarded for spending money andtime onthe Internet. You may not have known that over one hundred billionpeople daily surf the Internet on regular basis for one reason or other.These Internet users including yourself, pay access fees to variousInternet Service Providers (ISP) all over the word who in turn remitsurplus funds to the numerous World Wide Internet Technology Companies(WWITC) for the development and advancement of Global Information technology.After the automated computer ballot, your E-mail address emerged as awinner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached RefNumber: PW EH 9590 OG 0612,Batch Number: PA 563881545-NL/2007 You and other category “A” winners are therefore to receive a cashprize of $2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand UnitedStatesDollars) from the total payout of One Billion US Dollars earmarked inthe lottery for category “A” winners. Your prize award has beeninsured with your E-mail address, which qualified you for the lottery and willbe transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutoryobligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory proof ofE-mail address ownership. To file in for the processing of your winning cash prize, you areadvised to contact our certifiedand accreditted claims agent for category "A" winners with theinformation below: CLAIMS AGENT.Name: ALLAN CAMPBELLEmail: infowebex7002@yahoo.de Note: You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially yourreference numbers and the password of your E-mail address. Since we donot know you, if an impostor hacks your E-mail account ID and claims yourmoney without our knowledge, we shall not be liable. Double claims willnot be entertained so be careful. Furthermore, should there be anychange of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.Congratulations!!! And thank you for being a user of the World WideWeb. Thanks,Marry Jones,Lottery Co-ordinator!!
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