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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447024059217 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <mark_foster@live.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 09:53:21 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL HAVE WON $820.000.00



CONGRATULATIONS
YOUR EMAIL IS ONE OF THE EMAILS THAT WON THIS YEARS CANADIAN LOTTERY,
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TICKET TO BE PART OF THIS DRAW OF LOTTERY. IT
IS BY RANDOM SELECTION OF SOME EMAILS, WHICH IF YOUR EMAIL IS ONE, YOU
ARE A WINNER.



Date: 1/11/2008

Ref: 575061725

Batch: 8056490902/188





Winning Numbers1226304021




AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE

Attention: Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result
winners of Canadian International Lottery Programme held on October
2008 from the Canadian International Lottery programme(6\49). Which is
fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses.Your mail was attached to ticket number; 675061725 9356460902 Serial Number 67749137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers
as follows 2-9-23-35-46 bonus number 14, which consequently won the
lottery in the second category. You are here by have been approved a
lump sum pay of US$820,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/WH 46704/03 from the total cash prize shared amongst Eight lucky winners in this category.







HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our claims agent with this informations

FULL NAME:.................

COUNTRY:....................

HOME ADDRESS:..................

MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:........................

AGE:.............................

SEX:....................................

MARITAL STATUS:.................

OCCUPATION:...........................

CLAIMS AGENT INFORMATIONS

NAME:MARK FOSTER

EMAIL: mark_foster@live.com

Telephone:+447024059217


BEST REGARDS
MRS ROSE HODS


(LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR)

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION

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