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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • +447045734645 (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.
  • powerball_infodesk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: powerballonlinepromo@mchsi.com
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:36:19 +0000
Subject: CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT

POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC.
5th Floor East
Commonwealth Centre
55 Currie Street London L70 1NL.
United Kingdom.

Dear Winner,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 4th of
October 2007 from the Uk International Lottery programme. Which
is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses. your email was attached to ticket number 56475600545 188
serial number5368/02.This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 09,
01,11,05, 18, 20 bonus number 16, which consequently won the lottery in
the First category.
You hereby have been approved a lump sum of £850,000.00(POUNDS
STERLING)in cash credit file KTU/9023118308/03 from the total cash
prize of £125,500,000.00(POUNDS STERLING) shared
amongst 550 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 state, Europe,Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is
conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communitties where they have perational base. Further
more your details(e-mail address) falls
within our European representative office in London,United Kingdom, as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £850,000.00, will be
released to you from this regional branch
office in London.
We hope with your prize, you will qualify to participate in our end of
year high stakes for £1.3 Billion international draw.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE BELOW YOUR WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN CONTACTING
YOUR AGENT:
United Kingdom Gaming Board
Contact Person: Sir. Drakes Hamilton
Email: powerball_infodesk@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+44 7(0)4573 4645

Batch: 12/25/0340
Ref: UK/101OXI/02
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number (Country Code)-(Area Code)- Phone Number):
10:Cell Number:(Country Code) - (Cell Phone Number):
11.Fax Number:
12.Draw Number above:

Fill in the details below to your claims agent for verification.
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 advantage of this programme by non-participant or
unofficial personnel.
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of
POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY Congratulations to all our lucky winners.
Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,
Suzanne Wayans (co-ordinator).

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