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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "you are advice to " (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!

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:26:17 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ATTENTION:_LUCKY_WINNERS?=






SHELL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
PAYMENT CENTER.
WORLD LOTTERY.
Ref: SHL/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369.





AWARD NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE.

ATTENTION: LUCKY WINNERS

I am Mr Isaac Peters, the prize director representing the Shell International Lottery Corporation's Un-Claimed Department. On August 24th, 2008 at approximately 3:45pm, I tried contacting you, but unfortunately was unable to get a hold of you. The main reason for electronically mailing you this letter is to inform you of the reason for my call. Every year we receive over 5,000 entry forms from different lottery players from around the world. Precisely speaking, I was just looking at our network to find out that you were selected as a prize winner on August 24th, 2008 and you havn't claimed your winnings, for the sum of US US$500,000 .

So I am mailing in regards to know why you have not made any effort to claim your money. You have $500,000 sitting here, waiting for you. I dont know why somebody will wait that long to claim their money.


You are advice to send the below information to me to enable me instruct you on how to receive your claim.

INFORMATIONS FOR PROCESSING AND DELIVERY LOTTERY CLAIM
1. Full names.................................................................................................
2. Contactaddress.........................................................................................................
3.Telephonenumber......................................................................................................
4.Fax ............................................................................................................................
5.Sex ...........................................................................................................................
6.Occupation.................................................................................................................
7. Date of birth................................................................................................
These information will be needed in preparing all the vital documents that will cover the processing and final release of your price money to you.

Note: that as soon as all these informations are received, your prize will be processed accordingly.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Isaac Peters

Online coordinator for THE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN.
BEST REGARDS
MR Isaac Peters
---------------------shell lottery 2008 incorporation------------------------




Confidentiality Notice:
Please note that this email, and any files that may be attached to it,is/are confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity(ies) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any use,distribution,copying or disclosure by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under applicable law(s). If you received this email in error,please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message (making sure it is also deleted from the Deleted Items folder of your mail client).

Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to official business of INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY and insurance shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY finance and insurance when addressed to comet finance and insurance clients; and any information contained in this email is subject to the terms and conditions of the governing client's contract(s).


---------------------- ALICE N°1 de la RELATION CLIENT 2008*--------------------
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