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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 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.
  • +31633701179 (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.
  • europeanprogram@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Your Email Result (Won)" <remitance@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:00:20 +0800
Subject: Your Email Result (Won)

UNIVERSAL LOTTERY DEPARTMENT
THE-NETHERLANDS (NL/NATIONAL LOTTERY).
DAALWIJK 112, HARLEM 144A.
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS.
Ref: NL/1121/76.
Batch #: 3442/756/G/NL.
LOTTERY #: NL233/4541X.
DEAR WINNER:



We happily announce to you the Draw Number: 1-3-4-9-NL of the
THE-NETHERLANDS INTERNET UNIVERSAL LOTTERY DEPARTMENT Program held on Monday
18th February 2007. Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number:
436/234/529NL, Serial Number: 5669/06NL drewing the Winning Numbers:
2-7-19-3-02 with (Bonus No.13), which subsequently won you the lottery in
the 1St. category (i.e.) match 4 lucky numbers plus Bonus No.14 Our winners
are arranged into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly
in each category.
They are arranged in this format below:

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 10 EURO,
800,000:00 each.

Your e-mail won you the prize in the 2ND category, You have therefore been
approved to claim the total sum of EURO, 800,000:00 (Eight Hundred Thousand
Euros) in cash credited to file. This is from a total cash prize of 10
Million Euros, shared among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this
category.
All participants in this online version were selected randomly from World
Wild Web sites through computer ballot draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
This promotion takes place annually.
Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative
office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
EURO ,800,000:00 (Eight Hundred Thousand Euros ) will be released to you by
any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim is processed and your money
remitted to you.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
We hope you do understand the contents of this draws; The jackpot winning
is ..85million Euro. Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 30
Days . After this date all unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited. Please,
in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote
personal and winning numbers in all correspondence with us .Congratulations
once again from all members of Lotto NL. Thank you for being part of our
promotional program of this year's winners,Send them the following..

(i) Your names..
(ii) Contact telephone and fax numbers
(iii) Contact Address
(iv) Your winning numbers
(v) Quote amount won.
***************************************************************************
**********************
Contact person: Gerald Peterson
(International Credit Department)
Email: europeanprogram@aim.com
Tel: +31-633-701-179
Fax+31-847-253-251
***************************************************************************
**********************
Congratulations, once again.
Yours in service,
Ms, Alice Vera.
(Secretary)

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