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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.
• 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.
  • royal.eddy@k.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Eddy Jones"<royaleddy003@myway.com>
Reply-To: royal.eddy@k.ro
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:31:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: BATCH:19/205/JCS.(CONGRATULATION YOU WON)


HEAD OFFICEEURO-ROYAL SWEEP STAKE LOTTERY SPCAL LE ROYAL 48 C.P 29480 MADRID SPAIN.FROM:THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTORINTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

REF:HAWS/2002292201/06BATCH:19/205/JCS.SERIAL/TRACK:6599/06DRAW NO:#4-33-26-40-56-78

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you about the release of the EURO-ROYAL SWEEP STAKE LOTTERY INTERNATIONALPROGRAM, held on the 10th of june 2007,your email is attachedto ticket number:677-4834490301.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of ($1,021,000.00) [ONE MILLION AND TWENTY ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS]in cash credited to FILE HAWS/2002292201/07.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which your email was selected amongst the 10 lucky winners. To file your claims please contact me on my direct email address :-royal.eddy@k.ro

Your Full Details :-

FULL NAME:.................................SEX:......................................AGE.......................................NATIONALITY......................................OCCUPATION.......................................PHONE............................................

Remember, all winning must be claim not later than 11TH NOVEMBER 2007and after this date all be returned as unclaimed.Congratulations again from all the members of our staff and thanks for beingpart of our promotion program.

Yours faithfully,

DR. EDDY JONESMANAGING DIRECTORINTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONPRIZE AWARD DEPT



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