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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:
  • "million dollars" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • 00622132130314
• 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.
  • promoinquiry@plasa.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • drahmadjafar@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: abu dadi <mousa192002@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:05:20 +0700
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION LETTER



Consolidated Internet Trust Fund Inc.
PLASA, HOTMAIL, YAHOO & AOL ENDORSED
REGISTERS {DIVIDEND & REFERENCE DEPT}
120 Acacia Street London , EC2M 2WG United Kingdom.
Facsimile: 44 8701352649
Info: promoinquiry@plasa.com

Ref Nº:CTF/182250/07
Payment Nº:KC37-011/004C

AWARD NOTIFICATION LETTER

ATTENTION: Beneficiary,

This is to inform you on the release of our Consolidated Internet Awareness Trust Fund Internet Lottery Promotion Program held on the 13th of October 2007. Your email address was entered as a dependent client with reference number: CTF/182250/07 and the serial No: 3015-LH drew the lucky winning numbers: 15-18-30-22-37-50. should there be any discrepancy in your name and address, please contact your clearance office.

You have therefore been approved for a winning payment of $250, 000:00 (TWO HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY) in cash credited to file claims numbers stated above. This is from total cash prizes of 25 Million Dollars shared among 100 international winners in this category. Due to strict payment policy, prize cannot be tampered until you received the whole approved money in your possession to avoid interference and misappropriation. Congratulations!!!

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through a computer ballot system drawn from (FIFTY THOUSAND),email addresses world wide as part of our international internet promotions program. Your funds are now deposited with a bank insured in your email name, with insurance bond policy coverage. Due to mixed up of names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your funds remitted to you. This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the situation by scammers..

Your payment number falls at Asia regional clearance office in Jakarta Indonesia , in view of this, your prize will be released from in Indonesia . To begin your claim, please file your true information stated below and send immediately to clearance office, they are your sole agent for the processing and remittance of your funds. Be aware that you would be required to pay some commission before receiving prize depends on nationality because no amount can be deducted from prize.

REF No:………….............…PAYMENT No:……...............……
FULL NAME:………………………………....AGE:...........GENDER:….......
NATIONALITY/PRESENT LOCATION:…………………………………...
EMAIL:………………….…....….JOB:..............................
TEL/MOBILE No:................

Clearance office & contact person,
Dr Ahmad Wuse Jafar
No. 27, Ramayana, Jl Raya, Jakarta 13672 , Indonesia
Tel: 0062 21 3213 0314, Fax: 0062 21 3213 0316
Mobile phone: 0062 85692442346
Email:drahmadjafar@hotmail.com

To avoid complications, please make sure you keep contact only with the approved director his picture appeared above, any transaction you held with other persons beside him is at your own risk and be aware that your paying authority will affect payment swiftly upon satisfactory report, verifications and validation provided by the clearance office prior payment in accordance with policies of organizers/European and Asian gaming board

NOTE: All prizes must be claimed before 4th of November 2007, after this date, fund will be returned as unclaimed and always quote winning numbers in every correspondence.

Sincerely yours,

Carol A. Hallison PhD
(Promotion coordinator)


IMPORTANT NOTICE
All prize winners must proclaim affidavit of payment before receiving prize in accordance with European/Asia gaming board.
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