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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:
  • ",000,000" (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.
  • danwisgnld@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: Gnld Online Promo <gnldonlinepromo@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:49:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulations!! And welcome to our lifestyle



Dear lucky winner,
Congratulations!! And welcome to our lifestyle, as you join the founder for a trip down lane in London.
We happily announce to you the draw of 2008 GNLD LOTTERY, online lottery program held on 10 of April, 2008 in England. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: A04920IH with serial number: 015497 and Lucky number GUK0108. which subsequently won you lottery in the 1st category of file number: GN/COM/DW/015ND. Batch number: 0958K, Reference number: 01-LD-08. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$295,000.00 (Two hundred and ninety five thousand United State Dollars) in cheque, which will be handed over to you by the founder himself, Jerry Brassfield, during the Jubilee Convention.
Congratulation once more! You where among the 20 people whose e-mail address where selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from 100,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engine. Your email address was picked by the automated computer ballot system, which has been programmed for this random selection. This has eventually qualified you to celebrate with the Founder, International Executives and Thousands of GNLD Distributors the first in it’s kind, in our 50TH Jubilee Celebration in London (England) this June! (The 50th Golden Jubilee World Convention, 2008)
Our 50th Jubilee will be a grand affair befitting a venerable institution-in fact it’s sure to be the envy of even the monarchy! Our tradition of integrity has earned us the admiration of our competition and this event promises to add more sparkle to the fabled streets of London than the Crown Jewels!!


Once again!! Welcome to the family of GNLD-People Empowering People!!. We look forward seeing you being part of our Lifestyle.


CLAIMING OF PRIZE
TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE CONTACT THE CLAIMS MANAGER IMMEDIATELY


CONTACT NAME ; Dan Lewis
Email: danwisgnld@yahoo.com
Chief operating officer/ promotions Manager

YOU ARE TO FORWARD THE FOLLOWING
First Name
Last Name
Middle Initial
[input]
[input]
[input]
First Name (Spouse)
Last Name
Middle Initial
[input]
[input]
[input]

International Passport Number
International Passport no(spouse)



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Mailing Address
City
Zip Code
[input]
[input]


Winners’ Information
Lucky Number
File Number
Batch Number




Date of Birth

Sex

Occupation







FOUNDER: Sincerely.

Jerry Brassfield Roget Uys.
President & CEO

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