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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:
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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: medan ishof <kompliment1@web.de>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:19:55 +0200
Subject: ONLINE INTERNATIONAL




ONLINE INTERNATIONAL
Loomis Spain, S.A.
C/ Retama,56 1th Floor
28045 Madrid, Spain.=20
Attn: Sir/ Madam.

We are pleased to inform you the result of the Online International Progra=
ms held on the 5th April 2008.
Your e-mail address attached to:Ref Number :LOTES/443/21/08/AZ,Batch No:SP=
NL/6578/SA/DA,Lucky
No: 76-08-95.23-444,Serial No:WXYZ/55621,Ticket No:Your e-mail.
Which consequently won a lump sum payout of Euros 680,000,(SIX Hundred and=
EIGHTY Thousand Euros).
All participants where selected through a computer ballot system, drawn on=
individual email addresses
and names from all over the world.

Your winning information has to be kept very confidential until your claim=
has been processed and your
Fund remitted to you,these policies have been put i n place to check previ=
ously experienced mishandling
and/or misappropriation of winner funds, we are obligated to act in line w=
ith these policies.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarra=
nted abuse of this program by
some participants and non participants.
As soon as your agent hears from you,they shall commence the process that =
will facilitate the release=20
of your fund to you.=20

Dr.Edward Fisher=20
Managing Director
Loomis Spain, S.A.
E-mail:online=5Finfo@ozu.es
Note:The Validity period of the winnings is for 10 working days.
Sincerely yours, Mrs.Juliet Lorenzo
Online Co-coordinator.



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