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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "yahoo lottery inc" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand great british 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)
  • ",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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Jones Roselyn" <yahoolotto8@livedoor.com>
Reply-To: drdavidcoleman@y7mail.com
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:09:27 +0100
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATIONS:_YOU_HAVE_WON_=A31,200,000.00_POUNDS?=


* Divison of Yahoo Internet Lottery *[image: xe.com] ** *
*




*Payment No. AK07545*
*[image: Yahoo! News] *
*
Date: July, 2008.
*
* *
* [image: Yahoo! Mail] Lottery*
*PAY THE AMOUNT OF*:* ONE MILLION,TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS* *
£1,200,000.00*

*AUTHORIZED BY: YAHOO MAIL INC.*
[image:
arabtrans@arabtrans.com]
*CONGRATULATIONS !!!!*
* YOU HAVE WON £1,200,000.00 POUNDS! *
**
YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF THE 12 TOP LUCKY WINNERS !!!

*Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes every month. Today, your
account is randomly selected as one of the 12 top winners accounts who will
get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a
prize money of (One Million, Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds
( £1,200,000.00
GBP) for the month of july, 2008 lottery win promotion which is organized
by yahoo messenger .com every month. *
* *
*YAHOO, collects all the mail addresses of the people that are online and
offline on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo
messenger we only select five people every month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are
congratulating you for been one of the people selected to receive top cash
prize for this month. All participant were selected through a computer
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 as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more your winning details(e-mail address) falls within our African
Representative Office in Accra, Ghana, as indicated in your play coupon and
your cash prize of £1,200,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this
regional branch office in Ghana .*
*We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for £37 Million GBP international draw.*
*
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
*
*These are your Winning Information and Identification Numbers:*

*Batch Number........................ .........123/08/09474*
*Winning Numbers....................... ....02,07,19,24,35*
*Reference Number.........................YLINC /09697809*

*To begin your claims, kindly contact the Yahoo (Overseas) Payment Officer,
**Dr. David Coleman at this email address below.*

******************************* ****************************** ************
*Dr. David Coleman (Overseas Payment Officer)
**EMAIL:drdavidcoleman@y7mail.com*
*PHONE: Tel : *PHONE:*: +233-275-239-302

*
************************************************************
**************************

*You are required to forward your winning details via the above e-mail
addresses.And note that you must send your information to the above offices
for verification purposes.*

*1. FULL NAME.......................... ....................*
*2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN........................ ......*
*3. PRESENT ADRESS........................ ..........*
*4. AGE........................... .............................. ......*
*5. OCCUPATION.................... ..........................*
*6. SEX........................... .............................. ........*
*7. TELEPHONE NUMBER........................ .....*
*8. MARITAL STATUS........................ ...............*
*9. BATCH NUMBER........................ .................*
*10. WINNING NUMBER........................ ............*
*11. REFERENCE NUMBER.............. ..............*

*As soon as you contact the Financial Controller, he will advise you on what
to do in order to get your prize money.*

*For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.*

*Congratulations once again from me and all members and Staff of Yahoo
Lottery INC!!*

*Yours Sincerely,*


**
*APPROVED*

*MADAM ROSELYN JONES (PHD)*
*PROGRAMES CO-ORDINATOR.*
*
*

*[image: xe.com]*




[image: Winners] [image: Featured Winner] [image:
Sarah Cockings] Loveth, Teresa and Ann were among three winners to share
the Lotto Rollover Jackpot , each scooping a massive £3,000,000 Pounds.

NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION MAIL BOX. MAILS SENT TO THIS
MAIL BOX ARE NOT MONITORED AND CANNOT BE REPLIED. PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO YOUR
AGENT AS INSTRUCTED ABOVE.
Congratulations from me and members and staff of The YAHOO LOTTERY INC.

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