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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:

• 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.
  • payment_windows006@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "patrick clean" <clean.patrick@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:13:48 -0800
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?YOU_HAVE_WON_=A38_00,000.00_GBP_IN_YAHOO_MONTHLY_LOTTERY?=


[image: xe.com] <http://www.xe.com/> [image: Yahoo! Mail]
*Division of Yahoo Internet Lottery* **
& ; ; ; ; ;Nb's p; *Payment No. M30911* *[image: Yahoo! News] *
*Date: January & February, 2008.*
* *
*[image: Yahoo! Mail] Lottery*
*PAY THE AMOUNT OF*:* EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS* *£800,000.00*

*AUTHORIZED BY: YAHOO MAIL INC.*
[image: arabtrans@arabtrans.com]<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=arabtrans@arabtrans.com>


*CONGRATULATIONS !!!!*
*YOU WON £800.000.00 POUNDS! *
**
YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS THE ONE OF 12 TOP LUCKY WINNERS !!!

**
**
*Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is
randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners 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 NOVEMBER, 2007 lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo
messenger .com every month. *
**
*YAHOO, collects all the mail id of the people that are online and offline
on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we
only select five people every month as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for
been one of the people selected.All participant were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses
from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa
and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is
conducted annually.*

*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 this regional
branch 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
*
*These are your identification numbers.......................*

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

*To begin your claims, kindly contact the Yahoo Financial Controller, Dr. Tommy
ground p.h.d holder.with this email
address(payment_windows006@yahoo**.com<http://us.f454.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=payment_windows006@yahoo.com>)
You are required to forward him with the following details:*

*1.FULL NAME..........................................*
*2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN...........................*
*3.PRESENT ADDRESS...............................*
*4.POSTCODE...........................................*
*5.DIR TH 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..........*
*Batch number.....................
Lotto number.......................*
*Winning number...................*

*As soon as you contact the Financial Controller, 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 programme by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.*

*Congratulations once more!!*

*Yours Sincerely,*
**
*
**[image: Prakash Photo]*
*DR. PETER RUSH (PHD)*
*LOTTO CO-ORDINATE.*
*The Yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/> staff
Yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/> **http://www.yahoo.com*<http://www.yahoo.com/>

*[image: xe.com]* <http://www.xe.com/> [image: Yahoo! Mail]
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