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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +2347033341464
• 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.
  • sophiajohnson_yaclaimdepartment@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: yahoo lottery <yaholot20@msn.com>
Reply-To: <sophiajohnson_yaclaimdepartment@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:27:14 +0000
Subject: YOU ARE A YAHOO WINNER ONLINE DRAW CONTACT MRS.SOPHIA JONSON YOUR
CLAIMS AGENT































































You won $350,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! Yahoo! Mail Messenger
Messeng
CONGRATULATIONS!!
YOU WON $350,000.00!

YAHOO!
Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly
selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes
from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Three Hundred And Fifty Thousand United State Dollars) ($350,000.00) of the year, 2008. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every month.


YAHOO,
collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo
messenger,hotmail, aol and other e-mail Addresss, 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.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 details(e-mail address)
falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom and
Africa Nigeria , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of
$350,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in
UK.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
These are your identification numbers..........

Batch Number..........YM 09102XN Reff
Number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788

To begin your claims, kindly contact our fiduciary company agent at this email address:

You are required to forward her with the following details:
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT CONTACT
INFO;

BRANCH NIGERIA
CLAIM AGENT ( MRS. SOPHIA JOHNSON)
#14 MBANO ROAD IMO STATE,NIGERIA
TELEPHONE :+234-703-334-1464
E-MAIL: sophiajohnson_yaclaimdepartment@yahoo.com


1.FULL NAME:_____________________
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:____________
3.PRESENT ADDRESS:______________
4.SEX:_____________________________
5.DATE OF BIRTH:_________________
6.AGE:____________________________
7.OCCUPATION:___________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY):__________
10.MARITAL STATUS:_____________
12.BATCH NUMBER:______________
13.LOTTO NUMBER:______________

As
soon as you contact the Claims Agent ,she will advise you on what to do
in order to get your prize money.Congratulations once more!! 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.

Yours Sincerely,




Mrs.Susan P. Crawford

(Lotto Co-coordinator).
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

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