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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:
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447031937557 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • message.alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:47:02 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR E-MAIL HAS WON X400,000.00 POUND S FROM THE HONDA HUNT PRO

Welcome to the official site of the Honda
Seasons Promotions. The
Online Consumer Promotions 2008

European Region Office:
10B Canada Square,
London HP1 8HFD,England.

Ref:475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188

CONGRATULATIONS!

AWARD NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the Honda Lottery Promotions for the
year 2008 at our Lotto Draw Headquarters London, United Kingdom organized by
Honda. This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP
£400,000.00 (four hundred thousand, British Pounds Sterling).

Honda Promo Inc. arranged and gathered some of all the e-mail addresses of
the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to all
Email Providers most especially Yahoo and Hotmail, we only selected Twenty
(20) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting
System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being
one of our lucky winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to London due to we
have 3 lucky winners in United Kingdom so that you can be cleared and paid
simultaneously there.
You are to contact our UK Location Claim Office on or before your date of
Claim.

Honda Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 7days from date of Draw
Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (7 days) will be
forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:
Ticket number:
00545 188 564756,
Prize # 77801209/UK,
Winning
Number:4634553/N,
Serial number 5368/02
Lucky numbers: 17 98 09 67 46

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Simply contact our Customer Service
Information Headquarters (CSIHDepartment),
Prof Usman Garba

E-mail:alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com
TEL:+447031937557
Fax:+44872647450
IMPORTANT
NOTICE

Send these following informations to the CSIH Department immediately for
further procession.
1 FullName:...........................................................

2Cellphone:.................or...Telephone:..........................................................

3Contact Address ...................................................

4Date of birth........................................................

5Age...................................................................

6Occupation.........................................................

7Sex...................................................................


8 Marital Status.....................................................

9 Country of Origin....................................................

10 Winning Number...............................................

11 Serial number.................................................

12 Lucky numbers..............................................

KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.

NOTE
THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT OR
GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED
STRICTLY!

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 program
by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once
again on your winnings!!!

Yours in service,
Prof. Wilcox
Bruce

HONDA NOTIFICATION OFFICE
If you have questions or wish to
claim your prize money kindly contact us,alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com see the
instructions at the body of this
message.alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com

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