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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:

• 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.
  • +31622851045 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • culverconsultingagency@fsmail.net

Fraud email example:

From: "Director Martins" <rmartins@lotto.nl>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:43:06
Subject: Congratulations: Rollic lotto award winner !!!

ROLLIC LOTTO
23 RIJNWEGSTRAAT,AMSTERDAM,NETHERLANDS

TO WINNERS IN OUR PROGRAM

Good day,

This is to congratulate you over your success in our computer balloting sweepstake held on 16th February,2006 in which your email address attached to ticket number LNT456780909890 and drew the lucky numbers 4-10-12-55-25-67,batch number 4578/NL and consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. This is a millennium scientific computer game in which email addresses were used and it is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users;so you do not need to buy a ticket to enter for our online lotto program. Therefore,you have been approved of a lump sum amount of U.S $1million dollars credited as Bond into your security file LOTTERY REF NUMBER Amt/nt/423275/01 with our security agent. This amount is from the total prize money of $15,800,000 shared among the seventeen international winners in categories C with serial number: IL/PLW/18-C0547671254. Note that this program was largely promoted and sponsored by a group of philanthropist, industrialists from the internet ware industry and some other big

multinational firms who wish to be anonymous. Therefore,to confirm the legitimacy of our lotto program, the below website is one of the websites we are running over the internet concerning our lottery programs in Netherlands.
http://www.lotto.nl/lotto/execute/intro?node=lottointros&default=lottorootnode&ad=0


To file for your claim, please send your confirmation email to your claim officer. Below is the contact details of your claim officer:

MR.CURTIS LUCAS
(PAYMENT DIRECTOR)
CULVER CONSULTING AGENCY
AMSTERDAM,NL
TELEPHONE: +31-622851045
EMAIL: culverconsultingagency@fsmail.net

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and an award certificate must be obtained from the Netherlands Gaming Control Board through a registered Attorney in the Netherlands and forwarded to our affilliated bank to complete the claiming process,therefore,we advise you to comply to the claim instructions of your claim officer.

Conclusively,this email should not be treated as a scam scheme or be taken for granted,we are backed up by the appropriate lottery law in the Netherlands and only the successful winners in this our online lotto program receive this congratulation mail and because you won that is why this mail is being directed to you. Remember that all prize money must be claimed not later than 7 working days. After the last day, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,
Director
Rita Martins
(Lottery Coordinator)

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