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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:
  • "lottery winners international e-mail programs" (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • eurolot@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • febregasoffice@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: EUROMILLION LOTTERY <infoservicelottoxx5@web.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:03:25 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS iii YOU HAVE WON






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*EURO MILLIONS SPANISH LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REFERENCE: 87/60/IPD
BATCH: EGGS-983-641-298: DATE 01/11/2007*<o:p></o:p>

*Email: **/eurolot@excite.com/** ** [http://us.f358.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=Febregasoffice@aim.com]** *<o:p></o:p>

* RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION
/ Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions Spanish Lottery Winners International E-mail programs held on the 25TH OF OCTOBER 2007 and result where release on the 29TH OF OCTOBER 2007. Your E-mail address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675 with serial main number 345-790-241-671 drew lucky star/**/<v:shape id=_x0000_i1032 style="WIDTH: 67.5pt; HEIGHT: 15pt" alt="Get ed traffic to your web site!" type="#_x0000_t75"

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