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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: agent yakubu <mr_mark_owen@live.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:22:33 +0100
Subject: PRICE NOTIFICATION



http://www.fdf.orgAttention: Recipient,ccc, wishes to notify you that you have been chosenby the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cashGrant/Donation for your own personal,educational, and businessdevelopment.
We are giving out a yearly donation of US$850,000.00 (eight hundred andfifty thousand United states Dollars) to each 100 luckyrecipients.Thesespecific Donations/Grants will be awarded to 100lucky internationalrecipients worldwide, in different categories.
How ever you will have to fill the form below and submit this form totheoffice annex in France for verification & direction on how you canclaimyour fund,and also you are to keep all your information away from thegeneral public especially your Qualificationnumbers.((FDF-444-6647-9163)).
Name:..............................County:............................Telephone Numbers..................CONTACT DETIALS BELOW:===========================================Name: Mrs.Rolland AbidE-mail: mr_mark_owen@live.com===========================================!Once again congratulations!Yours faithfully,Mrs.Christie Cisse
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