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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!
• 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.
  • ucoordinator@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Yahoo Award" <gracesander576@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: uk_coordinator_2007uklondon@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:24:21 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATION YAHOO AWARD WINNES


Dear Prize Winner,

YAHOO <http://www.yahoo.com/> CONSOLATION PRIZE
WINNER NOTICE!!!

Yahoo And Window Live private international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors, Yahoo & window Live LOTTO Group International, officially bring
to your notice of the final draw result of AUGUST,2008.Yahoo & window Live
LOTTO Group International-game which was conducted at our international
corporate office complex in MANCHESTER UNITED KINGDOM.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon
number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize winners Your
email ID identified with coupon No. MFI/06/APA-43658 and was selected by our
E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the different email
addresses enrolled for the E-game.Your email ID was included among the
different email addresses submitted by our partner international email
provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of GBP 250,000.00 (Two Hundred And
Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds) only.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS
Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers.Yahoo
Prize Award must be claimed not later than 30 days from date of Draw
Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and
returned to its source as unclaimed.

Your winning identification numbers...
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522
PIN: 1207

You are reqiured to contact the Coordinator Officer with the following
details and also send him your winning identification number for the release
of your winnings prize .

1. Full name...............
2. Country.................
3. Contact Address.........
4. Telephone Number........
5. fax Number..............
5. Marital Status..........
6. Occupation..............
7. Sex.....................
8. Date of Birth/Age .....
9. Identity card(carte identite).
Contact Person: Mr Druv Martindale
E-mail:ucoordinator@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:447024048150
Tel:447024010728
Tel:447024048152
Tel:447024065607
Best Regards
Mrs. Grace Sander
(Secretery To The - Co-ordinator)
WARNING!
You must keep strict confidentiality of your Prize Award claims to yourself
until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid
disqualification that may arise from double claims.
Yahoo Awards Team shall not be held liable for any loss of funds arising
from the above mentioned.

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