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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united state dollars" (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)
  • "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.
  • +447011133422 (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.
  • revmichaelcollins.claimsdept@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR <mrfidelis24@msn.com>
Reply-To: <revmichaelcollins.claimsdept@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:35:55 +0000
Subject: Re: You won $800,000! Yahoo messenger! Mail congratulates you!







You won
$800,000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!




Messenger



CONGRATULATIONS!


YOU WON $800,000!
YOUR ADDRESS HAS
WON






Today, your account is randomly selected as one of
10 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us as YAHOO! Mail gives
members random cash prizes.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize
money of (Eigth Hundred Thousand United State Dollars)($800,000) for the month
of MARCH 2009. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com
every month.This Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger was
conducted to encourage users for their patronage and to encourage new
subscribers.

YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of
the people that are online on
yahoo,comcast.net,bellsouth.net,
gmail.com,aol.com,hotmail.com messenger, among the
millions that subscribed to yahoo and the rest messenger we only selected ten
people at this end of the year raffle draw as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for
being 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 we have just stated this year and
would be conducted annually from henceforth.

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 , as indicated in
your play coupon and your prize of $800,000 will be released to you from this
regional branch office in UK.

We hope with part of your prize, you will
participate in our NEXT YEARS end of year high stakes for US$5.3 Billion
international draw.


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

Batch
number.......................LUH 01475 WJ
Lotto number........................LWH 05436
DR
Winning
number...................LFG 03497 QS



To begin your claims,
kindly contact our fiduciary agent company at this email address: revmichaelcollins.claimsdept@hotmail.co.uk

His
name is Bishop Michael Collins
(Dr.)
Tel:
+447011133422
Fex: +448704715178


You are
required to forward him with the following
details:

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:...........................
14.THE MONTH YOU
WON:.................

As soon as you
contact your claims agent,your agent will advice 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.Finally,we wish you
and your household a happy and successful christmas and new year
celebrations.




Yours Sincerely,




Mr. Fidelis
Bridge.
LOTTO
CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com
staff
Yahoo.com
http://www.yahoo.com

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