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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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.
  • interbondedcourierrr@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: interbondedcourierrr@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 15:19:19 -0000
Subject: FINAL AWARD NOTICE



--
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today, 2rd
NOVEMBER,2008 for winners of the BRITISH NATIONAL


LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held on the 28TH May,2008.
Congratulations,you have just won yourself £750,000.00 in the
satellite software email lottery conducted by BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTION in which your e-mail address was randomly


selected by software powered by the Internet.Your email address was amongst
those chosen this quarter and you are to contact our AFFILIATED COURIER
COMPANY for delivery of your certificate,cheque of £750,000.00,A Dell
Inspiron 6400 Laptop, A British

Lottery Branded T-shirt and A British Lottery Branded Baseball cap. When
contacting them you are to include this order Number
37096218 as your secret number of your parcel to the courier company.

1. Full Names: 2. Address: 3. Age: 4. Sex: 5. Marital
Status: 6. Occupation: 7. Phone numbers: 8. Fax number: 9. Country

Mr.John Lawrence
INTERNATIONAL BONDED COURIERS
EMAIL: interbondedcourierrr@gmail.com
***Yours Truly,*****
Sir. Richard K. Lloyd.
co-ordinator(Online Promo Pro gramme).

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