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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 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.
  • monthly.eventsmanager@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Cartwright, Tori L" <CartwrTL@alfredstate.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:04:36 -0400
Subject: MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE HONOURS YOU THIS MONTH!!!

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million
Great Britain Pound Sterling's(£1,000.000.00) for the month of JULY 2008
Lottery promotion which is organized by MSN LOTTERY INC &
WINDOWS LIVE.



MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of
the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to internet email
we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System
without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.



These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....YM 09102XM
Winning number..JULYFM0988



However you will have to submit the below informations to the events
manager for proper verification:
FULL NAME:
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
STATE AND ZIP CODE:
NATIONALITY:
RESIDENCE COUNTRY:
TEL NO & FAX:
DATE OF BIRTH:
OCCUPATION:
WINNING NUMBER:
GENDER:
RELIGION:



NOTE:All winners are hereby advised to keep their winnings confidential to avoid multiple claims
from imporsters,so as to enable easy and safe claims of your prize.
======================
CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER
Name:Mr Ashley Brown
E-mail: monthly.eventsmanager@hotmail.com<mailto:monthly.eventsmanager@hotmail.com>
======================

Once again congratulation and have nice day ahead.

Mr. Cartwright Tori L
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

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