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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")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united state dollars" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • revpatrick.claimsdept100@yahoo.de
  • yahooagentpatrickdenilson@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "YAHOO ONLINE LOTTERY PROMO 2008"<mrsmonicabrown501@myway.com>
Reply-To: yahooagentpatrickdenilson@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:16:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: You Won $400,000! Yahoo! Mail Congratulates You!
















































                        You won

$400,000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!        

 





     

Messenger





CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $400,000! YOUR ADDRESS HAS

WON







Today, your account is randomly selected as one of

10 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us as YAHOO! Mail gives

members random cash prizes.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize

money of (Four Hundred Thousand United State Dollars)($400,000) .This Lottery

win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger was conducted to encourage

users for their patronage and to encourage new

subscribers.                       YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of

the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the millions that

subscribed to yahoo messenger we only selected ten people at this end of the

year raffle draw as our winners through electronic balloting System without the

winner applying,we are  congratulating you for being 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 we have just stated this year and

would be conducted annually from henceforth.

 

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 $400,000 will be released to you from this

regional branch office in UK.

 

We hope with part of your prize, you will

participate in our NEXT YEARS end of year high stakes for US$5.3 Billion

international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:

These are your

identification numbers..........

 

Batch

number.......................LUH  01475 WJ

 Lotto number........................LWH 05436

DR

Winning

number...................LFG  03497 QS

 



To

begin your claims, kindly contact our fiduciary agent company at  this email

address: revpatrick.claimsdept100@yahoo.de

/ yahooagentpatrickdenilson@gmail.com

 

His

name is Bishop Patrick Denilson

(Dr.)

 

You are

required to forward him with the following

details:

 

 

1.FULL

NAME:................................

2.COUNTRY OF

ORIGIN:.................

3.PRESENT

ADDRESS:...................

4.SEX:.............................................

5.DATE OF

BIRTH:...........................

6.AGE:.............................................

7.OCCUPATION:...............................

8.TELEPHONE

NUMBER:...................

9.FAX NUMBER(IF

ANY):...................

10.MARITAL

STATUS:.......................

12.BATCH

NUMBER:.............................

13.LOTTO

NUMBER:...........................

14.THE MONTH YOU

WON:.................



As soon as you

contact your claims agent,your agent will advice you on what to do in order to

get your prize money.Congratulations once more!! 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.Finally,we wish you

and your household a happy and successful christmas and new year

celebrations.







Yours Sincerely,                     





  



Mr. Fidelis

Bridge.

LOTTO

CO-ORDINATOR.

The Yahoo.com

staffYahoo.com

http://www.yahoo.com

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