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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:
  • "22 garden close, stamford" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
• 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.
  • infodelivery2@o2.pl
  • infodelivery2@tlen.pl
  • preparationcanonlytakeyousofar@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "niss com" <niss@mobimail.mn>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:17:50 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION NISSAN YEARLY AWARENESS!!!.


[image: NISSAN GLOBAL TOP]
**
*THE INTERNATIONAL YEARLY AWARENESS *
*PROMOTION DEPARTMENT UNITED KINGDOM LOTTERY**.*
*22 Garden Close, Stamford, Lincs, PE9 2YP, London*
*United Kingdom.*

*Reference Number: NISSAN:2551266003/23*
* !!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!. *


* The Board of Directors, members of staff and the Nissan International
Awareness for the end of year Promotion Department, wishes to congratulate
you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this years' International
Awareness Promotion (IAP) held on 2008, in London, England. *


* This makes you the proud owner of a brand new NISSAN MODEL CAR, M
Sport Saloon car and a cash prize of £450,000.00 GBP (Four hundred and Fifty
thousand Great British pounds). The car comes with a special NISSAN
Insurance Cover for one whole year, that is, till the next promotion in
2008. It also comes with a one year warranty and FREE repairs at any NISSAN
AUTOMOBILE depot or service station worldwide. *



*DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE VEHICLE.*


* *
*YEAR: 2006, MODEL: M Sport Saloon*


*The selection process was carried out through random selection in
our Computerized
Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email
addresses from the world wide web. Each email address was attached to a
ticket number and your email address with ticket number: 5647600545188 and
serial number: NSNP/556543450906 was randomly selected as the star prize
winner amongst other consolation prize winners. *
**

*For you to collect your prizes, kindly fill the verification form below and
send it to the Claims Manager, of our claims department through email,
stating your receipt of this notification. He has been mandated to offer you
assistance and facilitate the urgent delivery of your prizes. *
**

*Claims Manager:*
*MR. PAUL WOOL*
*Tel *:+*44 703 186 9679*
**
**

*Claims Department*
*EMAIL ADDRESS: *
*» infodelivery2@o2.pl *
* infodelivery2@tlen.pl » *


* VERIFICATION FORM:*
*1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE: *
*3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE........FAX...*
*9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
<http://us.f635.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=preparationcanonlytakeyousofar@yahoo.com>
*
*12.) TICKET NUMBER: *
*13.) SERIAL NUMBER: *
**

* Congratulations once more, and keep trusting NISSAN Automobile for top
quality automobiles.* * *



* INTERNATIONAL NISSAN AWARENESS PROMOTION*
*COPYRIGHT (c)2008. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED*

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