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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!
• 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.
  • thomas_smith0002@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB AWARD DEPARTMENT P" <2WEBMEDIA@flash.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:58:43 -0800
Subject: CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB AWARD DEPARTMENT PROGRAM

CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB AWARD DEPARTMENT PROGRAM
Head offices: Link places Stanford
Sussex BN 7DX, London.

Dear Winner,

This is a program from Chelsea Football club London, a
program to award
all
Chelsea fans worldwide because of their immerse
support for the club in
this
past few years. We source through the Internet fan
club email list and
conducted a draw from all e-mails register in our fan
club list and
your email
emerge as one of the lucky winner to be awarded the
sum of ( 95,000.00
British
Pounds ) NINETY FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS. We hope that
this notice send to
you via
the Internet will get to you on time to claim your
winnings from our
authorized agent in the United Kingdom zone.

All winnings must be claimed within the specific time,
not latter than
10
working days and you must contact your Agent in your
zone in United
Kingdom
via the email address given to you which will enable
you claim your
winnings
immediately.

Note that we prohibit any deduction from your claims
by our agent, if
you
notice any deduction from your winnings do report your
agent to us
immediately.You are `to contact your agent:Mr.Thomas
Smith via this
email : (thomas_smith0002@yahoo.com} with your
information stated below as soon
as possible to enable him process your winnings.

1. Full Name:
2. Contact Address:
3. Direct Telephone Number:
4. Age:
5. Sex:
6. Marital Status:
7. Occupation:
8. Nationality:

Once again congratulations for your winnings.
Thanks,

Paul Derek.
Program Coordinator.
Chelsea Football Club London.



thomas_smith0002@yahoo.com

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