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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:
  • "claims office" (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 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.
  • amoscarriton59@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:41:21 -0500 (EST)
Subject: YOU HAVE WON X150,000,00 GBP


MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMO:OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION



The MICROSOFT EMAIL PROMO TEAM is glad to announce that after a

successful completion of the PROMO DRAWS OF OCTOBER, 2008,

your e-mail address,attached to winning numbers:

(55) (73) (14) (41) (36) (29) won in the Tenth lottery category.



You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of

£150,000,00(One Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds

Sterling) in cash credited to file REF NO:MSW-L/008-28793,BATCH

NO:2008MJL-05, this is from a total prize money of £3,750,000

(Three Million,Seven hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds

Sterling),shared among the Twenty five (25) international

winners in this category.



All participants were selected through our Microsoft computer

ballot system drawn form 167,000 Names,as part of our

International \\\"E-MAIL\"\\ Promotion Program for our prominent MS-

WORD users all over the world and for the continuous use of the

internet. You are adviced to contact the claims processor with

the details below via his e-mail address :



Name: Amos Carriton

E-mail: amoscarriton59@hotmail.co.uk



PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO

CLAIM YOUR WINNINGS:



1.Full Name....................................

2.Address:......................................

3.Phone:...............Fax:...................

4.Country:......................................

5.Sex/Gender................Age............



In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications,please

remember to quote your reference and winning ticket number in

all correspondence with your claims officer.Your secret pin

code is ML0757985.Be warned that cases of double claims and

unwarranted abuse of this program will be legally pursued.





YOURS FAITHFULLY,

MRS. KAREN FERGUSON.


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