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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:
  • "million 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447025654591 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • paul_solomononline@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Woodman, Barbara Jean" <bw1238@arbor.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:02:05 -0400
Subject: MASTER CARD WINNER"

MASTER CARD INTERNATIONAL BANK PROMO
BARCLAYS BANK PLATINUM VISA CARD
BARCLAYS PREMIERSHIP
DIRECTOR; MR. ASHLEY STEVE.JR
Master card No: 5148 6547 8940 6543
Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178
Ballot winning No: 6782

MASTER CARD INTERNATIONAL PROMO. UNITED KINGDOM, AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER.

Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to the Master card No: 5148 6547 8940 6543, won in the sixth (6) PROMO categories 006. Your email address has brought you an unexpected luck, please read through this message. See names of winners below, you are at the sixth position of ten, you are so lucky to be one.

You are therefore been approved for lump sums pay out of £6,600,000.00, SIX MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Equivalent to, ($11,064,000 USD), Eleven Million, sixty four thousand US Dollars. In cash Credited to Master card No. 5148 6547 8940 6543, and With Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178, you are the sixth lucky winner of the total winners of 10. You all won £6.6, million Pounds each. Be informed that your winning prize (Master card No: 5148 6547 8940 6543) has been insured and ready for disbursement by the well known "BARCLAYS BANK UK". There is nothing more to do all you will have to do is contact your claims administrator for further information?s first by email, to claim your prize. See contacts below.

Claims Administrator
Name: Mr. Paul Solomon.
E-mail: paul_solomononline@yahoo.co.uk
Phone Number: +44 702 5654 591

All the 10 participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system (MCBS) drawn from each continent, as part of our International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, to promote the use of Master and Visa cards all over the World, and to promote the use of online payments, for the settlement of debts (taxes) and payment of bills. Your funds £6.6, million pounds, has been lodge in this master card (5148 6547 8940 6543), insured and ready for payment by the Barclays Bank. Be advised to keep your personal information?s to your self. For example; Credit cards, security numbers (code) etc. Please, for security reasons you are advised to keep this whole winnings to yourself, keep out of the reach of friends and from the entire public. All you have to do is provide the necessary information?s to process your newly won master card (Prize).

Do email the above Claims Administrator, at once with all the claims requirements below. To avoid unnecessary delay

Claims Requirements:

Full Name:
Contact Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Occupation:
Reg. No. Master/Visa:
Winning Email address:
Master card No:
Ballot winning No:
Amount Won:

The above requirements are much more needed to proceed. Be free and fast to send the above details to your claims Administrator.

PROCEEDURES:

1. Contact the Claims Administrator with all your claims requirements.
2. Choose one of the payment Options.
3. Activate your Master card.
4. Make sure you confirm payments.
5. Keep your claims Administrator fully updated.
6. All charges would be taken care of by you if any at all.
7. No one is allowed to touch neither deduct from your Credit card.
8. Payments are made in Great British Pounds. (£6.6, million pounds)
9. Read carefully and contact the necessary office. (Claims Administrator)
10. Prize would be paid in full, deductions are not allowed.


PRECAUTIONS:

1. The charges are very low; we made it your charges because of some reasons.
2. Mind the kind of words you use when communicating with your claims administrator, as he has the due right to disqualify you for misconduct.
1. Master Card account activation, if you prefer to have your funds transferred to your account then you must have to activate this master card account.
2. Master Card / Winning document, if you prefer to have your card and documents courier to you, then you will only take care of the delivery charge.

Sincerely,

Secretary
Mrs. Mercy Gray.

Anti-fraud resources:

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