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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:

• 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")
• 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.
  • +31617628550 (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.
  • marknaat@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mary wilker" <marywilker@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:28:20 +0000
Subject: MARY WILKER

STAATSLOTERIJ NL 2006
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
Laan Van Hoornwijk 55, 2289 DG Rijswijk.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
www.staatsloterij.nl

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
NETHERLANDS ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(REGISTRATION Z720633X)

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Dear Winner,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Final
Year draws of STAATSLOTERIJ LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL AWARD.
We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First
Category, which is part of our promotional draws held on 10th January, 2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 names and email addresses of individuals and companies from
Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part
of our International Promotions Program.
Your name and e-mail address, attached to ticket number 50941465206-529,
with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and
consequently won in the First Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of €1.5m (One million
five hundred thousand euros only), which is the winning payout for Category
A winners. This is from the total prize money from 9,200,000.00 shared among
the six winners in this category CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited
with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we
request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public
notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and
your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants/non participants of this program.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent.

************************************************************************

Dr. Mark Van Der Naat (SUN TRUST BV)
AMSTERDAM-NETHERLANDS
Email: marknaat@myway.com
Tel: +31 617 628 550

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NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and
Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours.

MRS.MARY WILKER

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam