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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.
• 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.
  • gregkalio3000@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: greg kalio <kalio67000000@msn.com>
Reply-To: <gregkalio3000@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:25:33 +0000
Subject: SOUTH AFRICA 2010



SOUTH AFRICA 2010

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on (11th May 2009) in conjunction with the South Africa 2010 world cup, your email was among the 3 Lucky winners who won $1, 950, 000. 00 ( United States Dollars) each on the REDDOT COMPANY PROMOTION.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
Contact your Claim Manager, Mr. Greg kalio E-mail: gregkalio3000@yahoo.com, cel numbers +834332835, With you Full Name, Mobile Phone and Detailed Contact Address immediately via email.
Accept my hearty congratulations once again!
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Elizabeth Gregory,
Promotion Manager

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