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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.
  • +31621987260 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "LOTTERY POWERBALL" <notice@pwball.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 18:31:20 +0000
Subject: CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE

                                 POWERBALL LOTTO.   BV
                             POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game

Date:1ST-OCTOBER-2005
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,
                                            
                          NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

Europe / America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group  International, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of 1st SEPTEMBER-2005  POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game which was conducted at our  international corporate office complex  in The Netherlands. Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out  prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM.By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of  Internet for academic and business pursuits.It major aim is to promote music, theater, art,literature, projects is the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education.We wish to  congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among  the 45 lucky consultation prize  winners. Your email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a consultation cash prize of US $ 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only.
The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consultation cash prize which  will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional  information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer Mr:Cally Martins whom has been assigned to assist you.

Contact NAME :Cally Martins

E-mail:(k.martins@mcrmail.com)

TEL:+31-621-987-260
FAX:+31-847-300-537

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation prize winning, we hope you  will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel Email-games.
  Regards,
    Helen Ince  (mrs).
         (Group Coordinator)

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consultation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers along with  the winning information’s you are not authorized to read, print,retain, copy or disseminate this  notice or any part of it.

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