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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.
• 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.
  • +34634005673 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • david_lemmes@mail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lopez carol" <lopezcarol@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: david_lemmes@mail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:34:42 +0200
Subject: Notification


THE CHEF FOUNDATION
CALLE SANTO DOMINGO 13,
29871 MADRID , SPAIN .
Ref: 61350129TW
Ticket: 134306150240-09


Attn:
WINNING NOTIFICATION

It gives me great joy to acknowledge you as the recipient of The Chef
Charity yearly draw,held on the 4th day of July ,2008. You have therefore
emerged as a recipient of the third award of eight hundred and fifty
thousand united states dollars ($850,000;00) in this annual promo.Your
e-mail ID attached to the above stated Ticket No. (134306150240-09)emerged
in our random sampling certified device,confirmed also by eminent
representatives of the accredited charity bodies Revenue for this programme
is derived from the non-governmental agencies and major multinational
firms cutting across the european and asian community, In compliance with
the sponsoring bodies' concensus,you are to make a remittance of a part of
your won fund,not lower than 10-percent to a reputable charity organization
within your locality,after receiving your allocation/prize.

Please,liase with the designated fiducial agent, David Lemmes (Mr) via ;(
david_lemmes@mail.com) or call 0034-634-005-673 for further
instructions/enquiries.

Congratulations once more,

(Mrs.) Carol Lopez
Info.Dir.11
NB:Kindly indicate your Ref/Ticket No in your reply.

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