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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:

• 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: "2008 LG Corporation Claim" <claimpromtt@ig.com.br>
Reply-To: mrslidiashekchanglg@live.com
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:17:22 +0100
Subject: Your Promotion 2008


LG CNS Global Private Limited
Corporate Office & Development Center 1
5th Floor, Tower-B, Golf View Homes,
Wind Tunnel Road,
Your Promotion 2008
Ref: IA/9820X2/08
Batch: 085/08/ZX379
www.lgcns.com


LG WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the LG Lottery Online
Sweepstakes International program held on the ,6/15/08,of which you emerged
a winner. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 199 with Serial
number: 5748/07 drew the lucky numbers which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum $60.000 (Sixty Thousand US Dollars) in cash credited to
fileKTL/9123418308/03 All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000 unions and corporate bodies listed online.
This promotion takes place annually for security reasons you are advised to
keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed
and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim
your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
element .Please be warned. To file your claims, please contact our agent:
Mrs Lidia Email:mrslidiashekchanglg@live.com<Email%3Amrslidiashekchanglg@live.com>
Phone No:206-339-7049
Your Full Names............
Country.....................
Occupation.................
Age.....................
Phone Number..................
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you forbeing
part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is
automatically disqualified.
Ms. Vicky Ray
Online Coordinator.
2008 LG Corporation

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