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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:
  • "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!
• 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.
  • europaagencia3@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: "Info Email" <info_email4@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:54:34 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!! YOUR EMAIL WON .

EURO MILLION LOTTERIES NATIONWIDE



We are pleased to inform all of the release, of the long awaited results of
the EURO MILLION LOTTERIES INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME held on the
14th OCTOBER 2005 in Madrid (Spain). People with under listed batch numbers
and reference numbers should proceed for their claim immediately.
This promotion was set up for poverty eradications and to promote the usage
of computers/ internet programme all over the world, All participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 91,000 (Ninety One
thousand) names of email users of the internet around the world, as part
of our international promotions programme.
Your email address was attached to ticket number 13-2466-69486-699; with
serial number SP58-89 drew the lucky numbers 17-14-64-66-85, and
consequently won in category A. You have therefore been approved for a lump
sum pay out of €500,000.00 (Five Hundred thousand euro only) in cash, which
is the winning payout for Category” A" winners. This is from total prize
money of €55,000,000.00 (Fifty five Million Euros), shared among the 55
international winners in this category.
Your funds are now deposited with EUROPA SECURITIES S.A SPAIN, a reputable
security and insurance firm in SPAIN, Comprehensively insured in your emails
name. In your best interest and also 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/no participants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our next year (2006) high stakes where
you stand a chance of winning up to £10.Million, we hope that with a part of
your prize you will participate.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Once again from the members of all our staff.
To begin your claims process; you are required to contact you claim agent
immediately
MR. JERRY CUSHMAN
OPERATION (Manager)
EUROPA SECURITIES S.A SPAIN
Foreign Service Number: +34628801603
EMAIL: europaagencia3@netscape.net
For due processing and remittance of your prize(money) to a designated
account of your choice.
Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than ONE MONTH from
the date of this announcement. After this date, all funds will be returned
as unclaimed.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification find below your reference and
Batch numbers. Note that you are to forward this email to the Security and
insurance firm in your first correspondence with them, whether by email or
tel.
REFERENCE NUMBER: GLUK/6283/13-05/07
BATCH NUMBER: 1845-TH
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being a
lucky winner in this part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
EURO MILLION LOTTERY SPAIN.
www.euromillones.com.es
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
Winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to
This mail. Contact your claims agent.

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