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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • beijingolympicgame_2008@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • beijingolympic2008@walla.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BEIJINGOLYMPIC2008 WINNER <beijingolympic2008_02@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <beijingolympicgame_2008@yahoo.com.cn>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:59:08 +0100
Subject: BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC AND PARA-OLYMPIC GAME LOTTERY














Dear Winner,


Pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of THE BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC AND
PARA-OLYMPIC GAME LOTTERY PROMOTION, held on Monday 1st. October , 2007
Chinese National Day (guo-qin-jie). E-mail addresses selected randomly from internet ITVS, Which was solely based online.
Your address consequently won the online sweepstake in the second category which allots
You with a sweep to the tune of CNY 3,780,000.00 (approx $497,000 =Four Hundred and Ninety Seven Thousand United states dollars) which has been credited to your file.


Your winning Information is as follows:

Lucky Number: 8-88-84-22-55-44
Power ball Pin: 73479
Bonus No: 88
File Number: IPL/425356354/WPI.

Attached to this winning, is a return ticket for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Accommodation (2 star ¨C hostel accomodation) shall also be provided upon arrival in China during the Olympics.

Contact your fiduciary agent to start your claims:

MR. CHEN QING FENG
WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER ( CHINA WORLD BULIDING )
11 FUXING ROAD. CHAOYANG DISTRICT, BEIJING, CHINA.
POSTAL/ZIP COD,1000859.
Email contact: beijingolympicgame_2008@yahoo.com.cn

Mrs. Ma Liu2008 Bejing Olympics Online Cordinator Email contact: beijingolympic2008@walla.com

DISCLAIMER:
In no event shall we be responsible for any divulge of winning information. You are advised to keep your information personal, we shall pay any clientele, with the same information as stated above and identification. For ages below 18 , such winning shall be considered void in accordance with NLO regulation.
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