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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")
  • "claim 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!
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • +32484411260 (Belgium, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: INTERNATIONAL EMAIL LOTTERY PROGRAM <nuevolottery1@netscape.net>
Reply-To: nuevolottery2@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:13:20 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON.


NUEVO-ORO LOTTO COMPANY S.L
In Conjunction with The National Organizing
Committe of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006
organisationskomitee Deutschland
koniginstrabe 23,80539 Munchen.

From: The Desk Of the Promotions Manager,
NUEVO-ORO LOTTO: Prize Awards Department
Reference:FL/668530092 Batch:45301/14/FIFA06/FL.

We gladly wish to inform you of the draws of the Nuevo Oro Lotto in conjunction
with the National Organizing Committee of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held on the
27TH of September 2005 in Munich Germany.

You along with 187 others were selected winners under draws 6+J in our monthly
program which will feature as run up to the games next year when you will be
due for the final Grand draw.However your e-mail address attached to ticket
number 508-7895-4456-224 with serial numbers 5223-54 drew the lucky numbers
16-43-85-33-15-73 and consequently won the lottery in the 5th category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Please be informed that all participants in this lottery program have been
selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000
companies and 50,000,000 individual e-mailaddresses from the worldwide websites.
This Lottery is Organized by the host country Germany, in collaboration with FIFA.
Funds for the draws have been contributed by the major sponsors of the games which
include adidas,Hyundai,FujiFilm,MasterCard,Gillette,Cocacola,Emirates Air,
Continental,Toshiba,Mcdonalds,Western union Transfer,Money Gram and a host of others.

Due to the computer mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you
Keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed
And Your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
Claiming or unscrupulous Acts by participants of this program.

Also find all other relevant winning lottery Information below:
Ref No: FL/668530092
Batch No: 45301/14/FIFA06/FL
Zone Draw No: IMSA2-040
Grand Draw No: 14219

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of five
Hundred and fourty-Seven Thousand, Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight
United States Dollars and Eighty-Seven Cents . ($ 547.828.87) in cash credited to file
No: LP/26510460037/02. For all Our international winners the value of the
amount comes to ($10.045.238.63 USD)Ten Million Forty-Five thousand,
two hundred and thirty-eight United States Dollars and Sixty-three cents.
For due processing and remittance of your prize money, remember that you
must contact your claim agent on or before 28th october 2005.
Please note that you have been assigned to our regional fiduciary agent
in Belgium for your prize money processing.
To process your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent

MR.STEVEN BROOKS
EURO TRUST
BRUSSELS BELGIUM
EMAIL:agentbrooks@walla.com
TEL:+32484411260

After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE:
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote
Your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims
Agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our Promotions program.

Sincerely,
Philip Suttie
lottery coordinator

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