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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",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)
  • "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.
  • dr.pedroterrans@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3adr.pedroterrans@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Lottery Zonal Co-ordinator" <rosebriggs03@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: dr.pedroterrans@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:34:43 +0300
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING


FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARDS DEPARTMENT MEDITERRANEAN INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY
CORPORATION

Date: 03/06/2008
Ref: 575061/03
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning Numbers 1 2 26 30 40 21

AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE

Attn:

We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of Mediterranean
International Lottery Programmes held on the 2nd of June 2008 from

the Mediterranean International Lottery programme.
Which is fully base on an electronic selection of winners using Their
e-mail addresses.
Your name was attached to ticket number; 675061725 9356460902 Serial Number
67749137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 2-9-

23-35-46 bonus number 14, which consequently won the lottery in the second
category. You are here by have been approved a lump sum pay of

Euros 2,000,000.00 (Two MILLION EUROS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW
46704/03 from the total cash prize shared amongst Eight lucky winners in

this category. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, you are advised to
keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been

processed and your money remitted to your nominated bank. This is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abusE! of

this programme by some participants. All participants where selected through
a computer/mail 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 in the medditerranean

coastal areas and also the goverment of each countries that boarder the
medditerranea sea as part of their social responsibility to the people
around the

mediterranean area where they have an operational base. Further more your
details (e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in

Athens, GREECE, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of EUROS
2,000,000.00 will be released to you from our regional branch office in

CYPRUS. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of
year high stakes for EUROS 15 Million international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM SIMPLY CONTACT YOUR REGIONAL CLAIMS AGENT.
*************************************************************************
DR PEDRO TERRANS
EMAIL dr.pedroterrans@yahoo.com
*************************************************************************
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
has been

released to you and also to the public. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this

programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the 30th of June
2008;otherwise all funds will be forfeited. Congratulations once again on
your winning .

BEST REGARDS,

MRS ROSE BRIGGS.
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
AT:dr.pedroterrans@yahoo.com <AT%3Adr.pedroterrans@yahoo.com>

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION

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reserved!!!

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