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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: Canadian National Lottery (Lotto lore) <notificationofficelott@yahoo.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:51:49 +0100
Subject: Canadian National Lottery (Lotto lore) Winning notification letter!!


Canadian National Lottery (Lotto lore)
Address: 2nd Floor Chiltern House
St Nicholas Court
25 - 27 Castlegate
Nottingham NG1 7AR,
United Kingdom
http/www.lottolore.com

Winning notification

Dear Winner.

We happily announce to you the result of the National Lotto 6/49 lottery =
draws held on Tuesday, November 13, 2007,Lotto 6/49- Lotto 6/49 in Essex =
United Kingdom and Ontario, Canada. All participants were selected randomly =
from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from =
over 10,000,00 companies and personal e-mail addresses.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 7560 4545 100 with =
serial number 046560 drew the winning numbers 8-23-33-40-46-49 Bonus 37 You =
have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$820,000 In cash =
credited to file EAAL/9080118308/04.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall within our European =
community booklet representative office in Germany as indicated in your play =
coupon. In view of this, your US$820,000. Would be released to you by an =
accredited commercial Bank in Europe. Our Europe agent will immediately =
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you =
contact their office. To file for your claim, please contact our =
corresponding agent in Europe immediately you read this message for quick and =
urgent release of your fund,

Contact information is as follow: -

Dr.Andreev Kriskovsky

email:andreevriskovsky@europemail.com

Telephone:+0049-176-75074723

***Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you =
keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been =
processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to =
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this =
program.***

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program to all =
that have successfully won this competition and thank you for being part of =
our promotional lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Anna Becker
Customer Service****

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