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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:
  • "hundred thousand great british pounds" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• 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.
  • eventmanager000@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo Internet Lottery <eventmanager000@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:17:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: You Won £800,000.00 GBP ! Yahoo mail Congratulates You !! Read Now



Divison of Yahoo Internet Lottery
&; ;nbs p; Payment No.560u8o GB30922
Date:5th September,2007.

Lottery

PAY THE AMOUNT OF: EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS *£800,000.00*

AUTHORISED BY YAHOO MAIL INC.


CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
YOU WON £800.000.00 POUNDS!

YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF TOP 12 LUCKY WINNERS !!!



Yahoo Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today,your account is randomly selected as among the 12 top winner’s accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Eight Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£800,000.00 GBP) for the month of SEPTEMBER, 2007 lottery prize promotions which is organized by yahoo messenger every month.

Yahoo collects all the mail "ID" of their registered member that are online/ offline. Among the millions that subscribe to yahoo email account and other email addresses on Microsoft worldwide. We only select twelve people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, since your email "ID" is already existing in our computer system. We are congratulating you for been one of the people selected for this month.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £800,000.00 GBP will be released to you from our regional office in UK.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for £1.3 Billion GBP international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Below particulars are your identification numbers.......................


Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact the event manager, Dr. John Henry, with the following information’s listed below


1.FULL NAME..........................................
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN........................
3.PRESENT ADRESS............................
4.POSTCODE............................................
5.DATE OF BIRTH....................................
6.OCCUPATION.........................................
7.SEX...........................................................
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER........................
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)..........................
10.MARITAL STATUS.................................
11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER..........

As soon as you contact the event manager via this email address: ( eventmanager000@yahoo.com ) ,he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial
personnel.


Congratulations once more!!

Yours Sincerely,



DR. MARTIN KEVIN(PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com





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