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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • raymartinsonline@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?us-ascii?Q?=20HEINIKEN=20INTERNATIONAL=20PROMOTION?= <Jakub.Kane@seznam.cz>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:54:15 +0100 (CET)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?HEINIKEN=20INTERNATIONAL=20PROMOTION?=

1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369



HEINIKEN INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION

We happily announce to you the monthly draw (#1073) of the Heiniken International program held on 18th of OCTOBER, 2007. It is yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:70875600545 188 with Serial number 5368/01drew the lucky numbers are:2-6-9-12-15-29(bonus no.25), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling)in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of 5,000,000 shared amongst the(5)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place monthly.Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your 1,000,000(One million pounds sterling)will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.


To file for your claim,you are to contact our fudiciary agent via this email address Below.

raymartinsonline@gmail.com
Agent Officer: Mr.Ray Martins

Yoursfaithfully,
Customer Services.
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