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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "yahoo/msn lottery inc" (no such lottery exists)
  • "yahoo/msn lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "00,000.00" (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 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.
  • +447045730443 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448700111740 (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.
  • burg_camac@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: YOU HAVE WON A LOTTORY <urgentlottery@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:54:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON THE YAHOO 2007 LOTTERY (CONTACT YOUR AGENT WITH:burg_camac@yahoo.com)










Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom .

IMPORTANT: Before You Continue...

CONTACT YOUR AGENT NOW WITH THIS EMAIL BELOW:
Please do not click reply to this email, All Replies should be forwarded to E-mail:Burg_camac@yahoo.com










WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Winner:



This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Three hundred thousand, ($300,000.00) for this month Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE AND OTHER EMAIL WAS ALSO SELETED.

YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the WINNER APPLYING,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
ADDRESS HAS WON
YAHOO MAIL BETA AWARD LOTTERY DRAWS 2007
These are your identification numbers:

Batch number..................... YBM-EBS-38DAF
Reff number.......................YBM5-EBS-719AF
Winning number................... YBM-EBS-798AF


Gaddy Vásquez
(Director)
How ever you will have to fill and submit this form for verification & direction on how you can claim your winning fund.

FILL OUT THE FORM CORRECTLY


1. FirstName/Surname..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............
8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation.............
10. Company................

11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

DECLARATION I HEREBY DECLARE THAT ALL THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THIS FORM IS TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF, CORRECT. ANY FALSE OR INCOMPLETE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THIS FORM WILL AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFY ME FROM CONTINUING WITH THE SCREENING EXCERCISE IN THE YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC .
[input] I ACKNOWLEDGE


;;;;;;
Best Regards,
Mrs lindapeter

ON LINE CONTACT:

+44-8700-111-740
+23-480-518-73833
+44-704-573-0443


(Events Manager)
Payment and Release Order Dept.
burg_camac@yahoo.com
[input] I ACKNOWLEDGE

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!













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